WORK PLACE CULTURE

What is a work place culture? We can say it is a set of shared beliefs, assumptions, attitudes and a way of doing things distinctively in a work place environment.

Work place culture contributes greatly to the efficiency and effectiveness of employees. This also in turn contributes to a company’s reputation. Some of the indicators of a good work place culture include:

Values

Organizational values define the way people in an organization work. They are the guiding principles of how work is executed in organizations. Often in most organizations values are outlined for publicity and the media but rarely do employees follow. There is need for organization values to be aligned to beliefs of employees and what they stand for as they do their work.

Interactions

Relationships cut across leaders to leaders, employees to leaders, employees to employees and the employees to the clients. Positive relationships where by team work is enhance and people in the organization collectively take up responsibilities and challenging situations creates a positive workplace culture. In these situations people readily can help their colleagues with their tasks without minding whether it is in their job description.

Processes

The way of doing things in an organization indicate whether the company has a good workplace culture. In a positive work place culture leaders can be able to entrust their employees to handle issues without necessarily having to confide in them. For instance employees can be able to handle customer complaints and solve them appropriately.

Communication channels

Open communication channels create a positive environment for working, information in positive workplace culture is timely, honest and involves every person in the organization, employees don’t feel left out in case of any changes or incase of new products in the organization.

Accessibility to leaders is also important in that leaders in an organization should have an open door policy which encourages employees to confide in them raise issues and be confident that they are heard.

Driving force

Whatever pushes or moves employees to accomplish their tasks, whether fear of the management or leaders or whether their goals are in line with the company’s goals and objective. Whatever Sykes up an employee to accomplish work at a stipulated time can also be seen from the quality and quantity of delivery.