Four Factors That Can Impact On Your Corporate Culture

Thanks to well-known companies that are praised for their corporate cultures that foster creativity and innovation in a casual environment, "culture" has recently become a buzzword in business. As opposed to other organizations that allow dogs or have more relaxed dress requirements, IT companies add bars and foosball tables. The goal is to create a workplace where staff members are content, eager to contribute, and unconcerned about working long hours.

However, there are specific ways that the culture you have worked so hard to create could be destroyed. It's probable that one of these potential culture destroyers exists at your firm.

Locks and impediments are far too numerous.

You encourage collaboration and communication while maintaining the typical office design of cubicles, private offices, and small meeting spaces. But that doesn't mean you should push your way through the office. One or more of your employees may desire or require a private office to handle calls and conduct client meetings. You can designate a space for teamwork, though.

Do you have a conference room with comfortable chairs where staff members can congregate or relax in a less formal setting? Instead of being a "drive-through for fast food," what if the break space was more like a "café"? Offering even a single or two serene, welcoming spaces can encourage interaction and creativity.

Uncertain hiring choices

To put it simply, culture is fundamentally about the people. This type of thinking permeates the entire organization and comes from management. You must therefore be particularly cautious while adding new team members. Even if they have all the necessary talents, will they fit into the culture of your company? Will someone who is more sober and professional fit in in a place of business where dogs are let to roam freely and employees wear blue jeans? Simply put, when a worker doesn't fit in with your company culture, they'll perform poorly or leave, and you won't be happy either.

In order to be quirky

What's going on if you set up a ping-pong table and a happy hour on Friday but nobody appears interested? Where you work, do they have ping pong tables and happy hour on Fridays? Or do they present a more serious issue? Have many of your employees young children and prefer to spend Fridays at home instead of the workplace bar?

Don't try to force a contemporary, up-to-date business culture on employees who aren't driven by it. Instead, consider what would inspire your employees more: telecommuting or early Friday closings in the summer? Because every workplace is unique, avoid attempting to mimic a style that doesn't truly work just because it appears great.

Anxiety of failing

If you value innovation and originality, you must acknowledge that company failure is a fact of life in the marketplace. If employees are conscious of the potential repercussions that could result if they attempt something new and it doesn't work out, they won't be driven to do so. Accept failure as a necessary component of creation, take the lessons you can from it, and try again.

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