A question for the HR professionals: Company culture – top down ⬇, or ground up ⬆? How to implement a healthy and productive company culture.
In modern business the culture of a company runs through all aspects of its operations determining who joins the company, how long they stay and how they behave whilst there.
✅ A positive company culture will lead to fully engaged, loyal employees and ultimately better productivity and lower turnover rate. ❌Whilst a negative or even unclear culture will do the opposite.
💭 But what is company culture and where does it start? Company culture is an intersubjective reality meaning it exists as long we believe it does, it’s the feeling employees have during their day-to-day life at the ground level. What are their interactions like with coworkers, how are they treated as individuals, do they feel as though their work is important?
Many believe culture comes from the C level employees 🏢 who dictate the identity of the company and the values they are committed too.
📈 Logically this would make sense, but it doesn’t quite align with the data. Research has shown that employee experience varies more between teams within a company than it does between companies as a whole.
This suggests that culture and wellbeing are more effected on a local level, office to office and team to team, from the ground up. However, as we all know too well even the happiest, most enthusiastic teams can be stifled by a team leader who doesn’t embody the same core principles.
It’s for this reason that we believe company culture comes from the mid-level. The team leaders, the direct line managers that you see day in day out. The people that dictate the culture of your building or your area.
But that’s just what we think, let us know what you think in the comments below!
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