When you think of the word ‘Culture,’ what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Most of the groups Ii ask this question, usually say something like, ‘France’ or something like that. You know, a place where people talk differently, eat differently, drive differently than what you may be used to. The same goes for organizational cultures. A quick and dirty definition for organizational culture is this: How people behave and relate to these business realities:
- getting the work done
- conflict
- decisions they didn’t make
- mandates
- internal change
- market changes
- new people etc etc
http://simondarcy.com/2009/02/what-is-organizational-culture-and-why-does-it-matter/
Imagine the atmosphere of your company at plus 80% levels of employee engagement—where more than 8 out of 10 say great things about senior management, align with directives and the mission, wouldn’t want to work anywhere else, and give extraordinary amounts of discretionary effort to make the company successful. Where they collaborate effectively and enthusiastically, execute according to plan, fulfill commitments, do what they say, and display confidence, integrity, pride and passion in their professionalism.
