A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
The Effects of Leadership and Management to Organizational Atmosphere and the Impact to Cash Flow Earnings: A Study from SME-Companies in Finland
Authors: Marcus Penttinen, Lauri Raitala, Tero Reunanen, Jussi Kantola
Editors: Jussi Ilari Kantola, Salman Nazir, Vesa Salminen
Conference name: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Publisher: Springer
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Book title : Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership: Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual: Conferences on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, and Human Factors in Management and Leadership, July 16-20, 2020, USA
Journal name in source: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Series title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume: 1209
First page : 161
Last page: 166
ISBN: 978-3-030-50790-9
eISBN: 978-3-030-50791-6
ISSN: 2194-5357
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50791-6_20
Due to organizational atmosphere being a very broad entirety, which extends practically to all activities and levels of the organization, it can be considered a strategic matter. Good organizational atmosphere shows off, among other things, as an employee’s satisfaction and empowerment, which increases organizations abilities to innovate and enhance customer satisfaction. Those can be measured with cash flow earnings.
This article shows trough a study, made in several Finnish SME-companies, a different way to measure performance and success. The good organizational atmosphere has huge impacts for the financial performance of the company as the article will show. Article also answers to questions how and why cash flow earnings is a good and relevant way to measure success and performance. The future research actions and needs are handled and addressed in the end of the article.
