What is Organisational Culture?
- The values, beliefs and expectations that employees share
Why care about Organisational Culture?
- Because organisational culture has a strong link to business outcomes such as performance, engagement and turnover
- Because it underpins everything the organisation does
- Because it provides employees with information and direction (often larger than individual self-interests or group interests) as to how they are expected to respond to change, innovation or developing risk awareness
- Because it contributes uniquely to an organisation’s brand image and brand promise
How can you measure Organisational Culture?
A Culture Audit can analyse aspects of people's values and beliefs in three ways:
- Identifying the disconnect between an organisation’s goals and daily practices and behaviours
- Identifying conflicting subcultures within an organisation (e.g. between senior management and other groups and between locations or departments)
- Identifying the compatibility of two company cultures in the context of Merger & Acquisition
Where gaps have been established, further analysis helps understand exactly which factors contribute towards the culture and what the result means (including what remedial action can be considered to improve it).
How People Resolutions can help:
- Planning: Through our sister company, human capital consultancy Human Potential Accounting, assess your organisational culture through a Culture Audit and use the knowledge to develop a unified culture consistent with the strategic goals of the organisation
- Prevention: Training managers to develop a positive and risk-aware organisational culture
- Resolution: For individual issues and potential conflicts arising from a toxic organisational culture (bullying and harassment for example) through facilitation, consultancy, mediation and investigation
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