Organizational Culture and the Effects on Business: Analysis of AES Corporation

The global power company, AES Corporation is going through some major changes in its organizational culture as well as the organizational structure due to various events of the past few years. The organizational culture of AES is one of change and shows the willingness to make the company successful at all costs. Just as the culture of AES has changed, so has the organizational structure of the company as it has transformed to be more …

…all. The loose structure that made AES so innovative and reactive in the 1990's is now more structured with personnel who are accountable at all levels and ultimately accountable at the corporate level. AES's organizational culture may have remained intact, with the ideal of moving up, promoting from within and loose supervision, but the structure now allows for more supervision than previously. The new structure requires specific individuals to be responsible for specific areas worldwide.