core

(noun)

The most important part of a thing; the essence.

Related Terms

Examples of core in the following topics:

  • Core Culture

    • Core and observable culture are two facets of the same organizational culture, with core culture being inward-facing and intrinsic and observable culture being more external and tangible (outward-facing).
    • The next level is values, which bridges the gap between observable and core culture.
    • This is where observable culture begins to transform into core culture.
    • In many ways, one could equate core culture with an individual's subconscious.
    • Core culture has the same relationship with observable culture: core culture is created first, and ultimately drives the visible cultural aspects of the organization.

  • Job Characteristics Theory

    • The theory states that there are five core job characteristics:
    • The core characteristics affect three critical psychological states of the workers doing the job:
    • The combination of core characteristics with psychological states influences work outcomes such as:
    • The Job Characteristics Theory uses this equation to estimate the overall motivation inherent in a job design based upon the five core characteristics.
    • Analyze the core characteristics, psychological states, and work outcomes in the Job Characteristics Theory, as identified by Hackman and Oldham

  • Alderfer's ERG Theory

    • Alderfer's ERG theory, based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, outlines three core needs: existence, relatedness, and growth.
    • ERG Theory posits that there are three groups of core needs: existence (E), relatedness (R), and growth (G)—hence the acronym "ERG."

  • Network Structure

    • A network organization sounds complex, but it is at its core a simple concept.
    • While the core company focuses mainly on designing products and tracking finances, this network of partnerships enables it to be much more than just a design operation.
    • These potentially unpredictable variables essentially reduce the core company's control over its operational success.

  • Employee Development

    • A core function of human resource management is development—training efforts to improve personal, group, or organizational effectiveness.

  • The Mission Statement

    • The mission statement is generated to retain consistency in overall strategy and to communicate core organizational goals to all stakeholders.

  • The Challenge of Ethics and Governance

    • Ethics is at the core of corporate governance, and management must reflect accountability for their actions on a global community scale.
    • At their core, these regulations approach the fundamental dissonance alluded to above: profit-maximizing behavior as it contrasts with non-economic concerns.
    • Though this is only a simplified and small analysis of a complicated issue, it succinctly describes how corporate management saw each echelon of leadership ignore the core responsibility of ensuring ethical standards in lieu of capital gains.

  • Characteristics of Innovative Organizations

    • The classic example of a company that completely transformed itself as a result of lateral thinking is the Finnish company Nokia, whose original core business was wood pulp and logging.
    • When the collapse of communism opened the Russian market to the west, Nokia's core business was seriously threatened by cheaper imports from Russia's seemingly limitless forests.

  • Incentive Systems for Employees

    • Human resources departments must identify the core culture of the organization and create incentives that match it.
    • This means performance incentives and metrics may be relatively useless (and most likely damaging) to executing the core organizational goals.

  • Assessing and Restoring Equity

    • The core concept of equity theory amounts to each party's inputs and outcomes equating.
    • Distinguish the core components of equity theory that seek to measure equity accurately and restore equity when appropriate