Organizational Profile Paper

Organization Profile: Structure, Culture, and Leadership

The purpose of this paper is to analyze a significant change within EmbanetCompass Knowledge Group the company I have been working for the last 3 year as a Program Coordinator. In this paper we will review the organizational structure, culture, explore the organization change, and the outcomes. In this analysis I had the opportunity to interview Jaclyn Kleinaitis who works as a Lead instructional Designer within the organization and can provide insight of the organizational structure, culture and management style.

EmbanetCompass Knowledge Group is the leading provider of online learning services for the world’s premier schools, colleges and universities. “Founded in 1995, with locations

At Embanet, they believe that maintaining the integrity and quality of their academic partners is their foremost responsibility. Their program development, student acquisition and student support services follow this belief. Their goal is to build lasting partnerships that enable the academic partners to expand their educational reach through effective, profitable, and fully realized online learning solutionsEmbanet is dedicated to student’s success and the academic institutions they represent. The core values are ownership, performance, innovation and solution. They act and think like owners and take pride in their work and accomplishments. They embody balanced wins, believing that anyone can only truly succeed when coworkers, academic partners and their students succeed. Achieving this balance in performance that leads to a stronger partnership, engaged employees and satisfied students. In addition, they strive to enhance everything. They want to

Pearson is the world's largest education company, with 40,000 employees in more than 70 countries helping people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives. According to Jaclyn, “I joined in May 2012 under Embanet Compass. I think it was October, so almost three years ago now we were purchased by Pearson, so we had this whole we're now part of the Pearson family and undergoing from small things like changing our insurance to changing our email. Those things are big, although it doesn't sound like that big of a deal, it's changing your workflow. Probably is the biggest change that we've undergone”(personal communication, September 21, 2015). Pearson culture is innovation and efficacy. Pearson's culture is one that is centered on the employee, but focused on results. Jaclyn said she looked efficacy up and Person define efficacy “as non measurable impact on improving someone's life through learning. Meaning what we do in our little corner of Pearson is directly related to that. We're developing online programs for students. So I think that's a direct Correlation to that efficacy. (personal communication, September 21,