88% of employees believe a strong company culture is key to business success.
Culture is the character and personality of your organization. It’s what makes your business unique and is the sum of its values, traditions, beliefs, interactions, behaviors and attitudes.
Positive workplace culture attracts talent, drives engagement, impacts happiness and satisfaction, and affects performance. The personality of your business is influenced by everything. Leadership, management, workplace practices, policies, people, and more impact culture significantly.
The pandemic has forced the adoption of new ways of working. Organizations must reimagine their work and the role of offices in creating safe, productive, and enjoyable jobs and lives for employees.
Initially, the pandemic shutdown forced offices to alter their business operations overnight, and to see what a fully remote world looks like Pandemic didn’t give enough time to Leadership, HRs and Facilities to plan the WFH due to sudden rise in +ve cases however, in last over 1.5 years Pandemic there are enough learnings and time being invested on the new workplace design and model.
Work Culture has a strong impact on the productivity at workplace
Culture defines the identity and image of an organization both for internal as well external customers. Your organizational culture will reverberate across all aspects of your business because it represents the way you do business. It’s simultaneously your identity and your image, which means it determines how your people and customers perceive you.
Creates pull to hire new talent.
Having a great culture and promoting it does help getting best of the talents from the market. Rather than going behind people, you are able to create a pull for your brand and people look forward joining you.
Keeps the morale high for employees they feel respected, motivated and are more productive.
One of the greatest advantages of a strong organizational culture is that it has the power to turn employees into advocates.
Your people want more than a steady paycheck and good benefits; they want to feel like what they do matters. And when your people feel like they matter, they’re more likely to become culture advocates—that is, people who not only contribute to your organization’s culture, but also promote it and live it internally and externally.
Helps you retain best of your employees
It should come as no surprise that employees who feel like they’re part of a community, rather than a cog in a wheel, are more likely to stay at your company. In fact, that’s what most job applicants are looking for in a company.
Ask any top performer what keeps them at their company and you’re bound to hear this answer: the people. It’s because a workplace culture focused on people has profound appeal. It helps improve engagement, deliver a unique employee experience, and makes your people feel more connected.
Core-values and Positive surroundings
Your culture can be a reflection (or a betrayal) of your company’s core values. The ways in which you conduct business, manage workflow, interact as a team, and treat your customers all add up to an experience that should represent who you are as an organization and how you believe a company should be run. In short, your culture is the sum of your company’s beliefs in action.
Conclusion:
The culture at your organization sets expectations for how people behave and work together, and how well they function as a team. In this way, culture can break down the boundaries between siloed teams, guide decision-making, and improve workflow overall. On the flip side, a toxic organizational culture has the capacity to do just the opposite.
