Móveis Rudnick`s Successful History: Leadership and Commitment

Abstract

History has been neglected lately in the world and ins some countries such as Brazil one feels the strong impact on this negligence. It is not uncommon to see people trusting more in fake news spread through WhatsApp than in History based on serious research. The fact is that some people neglect History because they think history deals with the past mainly. In this work we want to argue that history does matter and it is very important to pay attention to History in order to understand the present too. We propose to study the history of a successful company in Southern Brazil: Móveis Rudnick SA from São Bento do Sul, SC,. We suggest that this corporation is a good example of a good organizational climate, leadership and commitment. Surely this depends on good management, that is, a form of interaction between leaders and subordinates, between directors managers and workers. Moreover, this fact greatly influences on the result of the organizational environment and a consequent profitability. We also discuss the characteristics of the company´s leaders, claiming that these characteristics converge into authentic leadership contributing to form an authentic organization. Finally we argue that Móveis Rudnick is an organization in which authentic leaders are those who value interaction and transparency leading to an authentic organization.