A corporation’s culture can be very crucial when it comes to determining the productivity from employees. In fact, a culture literally defines a company, much like how we perceive the perspective of individuals of a nation by their culture; a company’s culture can define to an outsider, what it is your company stands for. This was examined in a survey which concluded that almost 64% of the employees consider their companies lack a competent work culture, which throws their productivity off of course. An employee is the voice of the company.
An employee’s every action, whilst affiliated with the company, serves as an ultimate reflection of the company’s motivations. If the culture isn’t enjoyable, it follows the traditional trickle-down path and employees aren’t considered any more valuable than extra working hands, it reflects its consequences on the production of the company.
It is no longer a concealed fact that the structure of corporate culture is changing. In the earlier days, corporations worked more like a dictatorship than offices but now, corporations are required to appease their workforce if they expect productivity from their own sector. Here’s why defining that appeasing work culture is necessary. To any upcoming, ambitious and immature employee, the culture of the company is more of an attracting factor than the name of the company.
If the company doesn’t have a culture defined and everything is in a state of disarray, it leads results in disarrayed production – evidently. If the culture is defined however hideous in quality, it will produce equally hideous products and will eventually fall down.
A third – and most important – thing to remember is the enforcement of this culture. It is a feat to have a defined and attractive culture but the implementation of it is a whole another thing. It’s comparable to preparing the blueprint of a building but realizing afterward that the real labor has just begun.
What corporations need to understand is that a corporate entity isn’t consistent of a single entity – it includes individuals of multiple origins, genders, races, cultures, traditions, languages, etc. To mold the minds of each and every distinctive individual according to a singular culture is a hard task and a task that requires intense care in its implementation.
The employees should be reminded that they’re the literal backbones of the corporations; that the culture is not only designed for them, but also by them; a form of corporate democracy, where every hand feels equally valued and thus, equally contributes.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”; it is also important to remember that just defining or enforcing the culture is not the end of the journey. The climb is high, but the reward is worth it; as the employees on the lower level begin to understand and appreciate this culture, the only way they will receive motivation to follow it, is through their superiors.
We usually look at those above us for motivation; individuals who once stood in our shoes yet now exist above us, seeing them making a living example out of their own manifested culture by practicing it themselves motivates the lower population to eventually follow suit. That is why constant engagement from leadership is a fundamental requirement. If those who devised the plan do not follow it, what makes those upon whom it is being implemented follow it?