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Reevaluate Your Workplace Culture
April 20, 2018
By, Emma Adamson
You’re probably wondering: What is workplace culture, and why does it matter to me?
Workplace culture, also known as organizational culture, is the character and personality of your business. So whether you’re an employee, or you’re the CEO, workplace culture matters to you and everyone else involved.
And now you’re thinking: Okay, but, what does it do?
Having a healthy workplace culture makes your business unique, making it stand out more than competitors that have a weaker culture. Studies have shown that companies with more culture show improved employee happiness, engagement, and financial productivity. And if you’re looking to hire: workplace culture attracts talent through making it clear to prospective employees what exactly you stand for.
If you’re unsure if you have the right company culture, or if you’re reevaluating what your company culture is, think about these following aspects that define the workplace culture:
Mission, vision, and values: One of the most important aspects of a company can be what it strives for, which is generally revealed in a statement about one of these three things. Reevaluate what your company claims their statement is. Does this accurately reflect what your business stands for?
People: If you run a virtual business, collaboration and having a coworking environment may be a little more challenging. This may be affecting your company culture by isolating people and ideas.. Think about ways to make your employees more connected, even if they’re working remotely.
Management: Some of the most common employee complaints have to do with management, rather than the company itself. Ever left a job because you could not longer stand your boss? Don’t let that happen to your employees. Take a look at the organization and hierarchy of your employees, and make sure you’re hiring people who both align with your company values as well as value your employees.
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Workplace practices and policies: When you put workplace policies and practices into place, did you do it because it best fit your business, or because you took the model from another company? Sometimes certain practices and policies just don’t align with what you are trying to do with your own company, and you have to reevaluate them.
This summer, take a step back from your business to reevaluate the way things are. If something feels off, you have low employee retention rates, or productivity is rather low, you may need to do a little spring cleaning. If you’re unsure of what your workplace culture even is, ask your employees, they might provide unique insight into why things are the way they are.