Introduction
Al Mansoori is an Abu Dhabi based engineering company that offers oilfield services in the Middle East. It has 15 branches in the UAE region and more than 800 employees from different backgrounds. This company believes that its certification was motivated by its professional staff and high quality services that enabled it to have a fully-integrated HSEQ management system. This discussion presents the values, ideas and culture of Al Mansoori that make it stand out amongst its peers.
Values
The staffs of Al Mansoori believes that quality standards in terms of health, safety and environment cannot be compromised, and they work hard to ensure their practices, services and products reflect the need to ensure there is security of staff, clients, property and the environment.
They believe that integrity, strong ethical values, transparency and commitment to serve are the driving forces that help this organisation to maintain a strong and unique culture. Moreover, it values its employees as the most important aspect that determines its future.
In addition, its values highlight the need for respect, fairness, trust and dignity as important issues that promote teamwork and coordination amongst its employees. These values ensure this company uses modern technology that does not have negative impacts on the environment.
In addition, Al Mansoori ensures its procedures respect human dignity and do not violate the regulations of any country that allows it to establish a branch within its territory. These values are important in distinguishing the culture and operation of this company from others.
Ideas
This company is promoting ideas that will help others to increase their profits and improve their performance by respecting their employees and ensuring that they are treated properly.
The need to ensure that all employees are respected regardless of their positions in this company makes them happy and comfortable in their places of work. This company believes that these people are important in determining the success of its activities. Therefore, it places their dignity first and ensures that nobody is unhappy at his or her place of work.
In addition, it emphasises on the need to observe security standards to ensure employees are safe. This is an important requirement in the engineering industry and helps employees to be safe in offices and on the fields.
An outstanding aspect about Al Mansoori is that it emphasises the need to have quality health, safety and environmental standards. It uses environment-friendly practices that ensure its engineering activities promote and sustain natural life. It advocates for excellence in practices, performance and operations of companies to ensure they meet their targets.
The video claims that the employees of this company are motivated to work hard because they are passionate and enthusiastic about their responsibilities. They are committed to instill professional values, offer quality services to customers and develop careers and talents.
This shows that this company does not only focus on its objectives to generate profits but also on the need to equip employees with the skills and knowledge that are important in offering quality services and boosting personal development. The managers argue that team work and positive work spirit are nurtured through mutual trust, respect for worker’s dignity, respect and fairness in the distribution of responsibilities, allowances and other privileges to employees.
Culture
The culture of this organisation is complicated because it does not follow a specific description. This company has the characteristics of most of Geert Hofstede’s classifications of culture in the following ways. First, the goal of every investment is to make profits and use appropriate means to do so.
This firm has a means-oriented culture (Hofstede’s Means-oriented versus Goal-Oriented and Employee versus Work Oriented) that ensures the practices and conditions of its employees, products and services respect the need to observe quality standards. This promotes employee, property and environmental safety measures and highlights the need to put first the interests of its stakeholders before it concentrates on making profits.
Secondly, its culture outlines a strict work discipline that ensures employees respect and trust each other (Easygoing versus Strict Work Discipline). In addition, the company has fair and dignified procedures for managing the affairs of its employees and expects them to follow suit.
Moreover, it ensures that its employees follow its rules regarding their relations, productivity, professionalism and commitment to work. This means that they are driven by the rules of this organisation to ensure they perform their duties according to the standards set by their employers. On the other hand, the company ensures that its workers, processes and products abide by the rules of the land where it operates.
Therefore, the culture of this company is influenced by both internal and external forces. Therefore, the culture of this organisation is healthy because it gives employees equal opportunities to use their skills and experiences to improve its performance.
It treats its employees fairly to ensure their welfare is protected. Open communication enables its leadership to be strong and influential in the activities of this company. This culture ensures there is a healthy and professional relationship between the company, its employees and other stakeholders.