Exploring Cultural Alignment in Outsourcing for Mature Organizations

This assignment delves into the importance of cultural alignment within mature organizations, particularly in the context of outsourcing agile teams. It addresses Rosenbaum's emphasis on 'mature' organizations, highlighting their established nature and steady growth. The analysis explores whether cultural fit outweighs individual skills, emphasizing that a lack of cultural fit can hinder trust and communication, ultimately affecting project success. The assignment further examines the benefits of cultural fit, such as increased synergy, dedication, and improved teamwork, and the crucial role of trust in outsourcing relationships. It contrasts how cultural dynamics differ between sporting-goods and health insurance firms, illustrating the impact on communication and team cohesion. Finally, it cautions against excessive cultural alignment, which can stifle innovation and limit diverse perspectives. Desklib provides a wealth of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to aid students in understanding these complex concepts.

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1. Why does Rosenbaun make the point he is talking about “mature” organizations?
Mature organizations means he is talking of an organization that has well been established and is
well known for their products. Rosenbaun refers to organizations that have experience a rapid
growth and tend to grow as the same rate as the overall economy not the startups (Staff, 2018).
2Does the article mean that the culture is more important than the individual skills?
Culture is more important compared to the individual skills. Rosenbaun argues that when
software developers does not fit in the organizations culture it depicts that the developer is not
trusted in the company. The development teams tend to be perceived as outsiders in an
organization. This diminishes success despite the skill that the developers have. Lack of trust
leads to poor communication hence poor software products will be developed. This depicts that
culture is more important.
3. What does cultural fit provide?
The cultural fit provides synergy. When an employee’s beliefs aligns with the company’s
culture. The employee tend to be dedicated to the company thus work harder to achieve the
company goals. The culture fit will provide high performance from the employees and also the
employees will work smarter and make decisions that will benefit a company (Maza, 2018).
Culture fit leads to a better communication between all the staff in a company and hence a
building on a great team work. A better company culture leads to stronger brand and a stronger
performance in the company.
4. What is the importance of trust in the outsourcing relationship?
Trust is important as it increases satisfaction of the performed tasks by the employees such as the
software developers. The entire team expects positive results in the outsourced relationship. An
agreement between a company and the outsourced relationship is achieved. The agreement tends
to be dependent on the expectations viewed to be achievable.
5. How does it work differently for the sporting-goods and health insurance firms?
Trust should involve the developer and the entire staff members in a company but in the in
scenario of the sporting goods the culture is relaxed and supports casual individualism. For the

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health insurance firm the IT teams tend to communication to one person in the firm who is
possibly the manager. The manager communicates to the other in the line of business. The
insurance companies do not work as one team (Rosenbaum, 2018).
6) What is the danger from too much cultural alignment?
When all the people hired have too much culture alignment in will stagnate the development
efforts. The company may miss new ideas, perspectives and lead to no or less innovation from all
the hired workers (Jensen, 2018).

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References
Jensen, D. (2018). For job satisfaction, culture fit matters. Science. doi:
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Maza, V. (2018). What It Means To Hire For 'Culture Fit,' And How To Do It Right. Retrieved
from https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2018/09/28/what-it-
means-to-hire-for-culture-fit-and-how-to-do-it-right/#48d084197986
Rosenbaum, M. (2018). Why culture is as important as skill for outsourced agile teams.
Retrieved from https://www.cio.com/article/2891696/outsourcing/why-culture-is-as-
important-as-skill-for-outsourced-agile-teams.html
Staff, I. (2018). Mature Firm. Retrieved from https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mature-
firm.asp