The Effects of Leadership and Management to Organizational Atmosphere and the Impact to Cash Flow Earnings: A Study from SME-Companies in Finland

: Marcus Penttinen, Lauri Raitala, Tero Reunanen, Jussi Kantola

: Jussi Ilari Kantola, Salman Nazir, Vesa Salminen

: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics

Publisher: Springer

: 2020

: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

: 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

: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

: 1209

: 161

: 166

: 978-3-030-50790-9

: 978-3-030-50791-6

: 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.