How to Avoid the Effects of Negative Organisational Culture in Your Business
by James P. Outreach & PR ExecutiveOrganisational culture is the shared values and beliefs of
your employees. Each staff member in your business will have past experiences
that shape how they think, their values, and their beliefs. They have certain
thoughts on how decisions and tasks should be carried out. In a healthy
organisation, the effects of organisational culture on that employee’s
performance will be positive. The culture has to be positive throughout the
business for each employee to benefit and feel comfortable. Research found that
employees that don’t like their organisation's culture are 24
per cent more likely to quit.
In this article, we will tell you about the different signs
of negative organisational culture, the effects it can have on your workforce,
and how you can change this pattern of negativity through your business.
Examples of negative organisational culture and its effects
Bad habits may not be something that employees have brought
with them from other corporations; they may have been picked up in your
business. For example, if the boss is late every day, then the employees are
going to pick up on that and think if he is late everyday then this is okay for
everyone else. If high standards aren’t applied every time a piece of work is
completed, then standards will start to slip.
Office gossip can be negative in any environment, but in a business,
it can be much harder. Employees have to go and be in a room with people that
are gossiping about them most days. You want your employees to feel comfortable
in their working environment, not feel like they will be ridiculed. Gossip can
cause a negative atmosphere to surround the business, and it can cause a shift
in the entire company culture and leave people closed off and guarded.
Creating good engagement between employees but also the
management in a business is important for everyone to feel connected together
and have good relationships. If all employees do is talk about work all day and
not socialise about what they do out of hours, they won’t have that strong bond
you want your employees to have.
What you can do
There are ways you are able to change the negative
organisation structure in a business. It does not matter whether you are a CEO
or manager, anyone can make the differences to change the business for better.
With bad habits, it’s not just the boss that can make a difference
in the way staff act. All employees can influence their colleagues on how they
act and complete work. There can be standards set in a company, whether that be
formally or informally, by having an employee handbook or conversations when a
new employee starts. Standards can be something like making sure your company name badge is in a certain
place on your employees’ uniform. Outline what the standards of the company are
and what is expected of them. Make sure remaining employees also keep following
these guidelines and this should naturally expel any bad habits that people may
have.
Office gossip is something that should not be tolerated
within an office. The effects that gossip can have on an office is not
something you want hanging over your business. This could also affect the way
your business retains employees, but also if customers hear about how your
employees are treated by other employees, they may not want to use your product
or service.
You can deal with office gossip by sitting down and talking
to the perpetrators but also the victim. It is also a good idea to speak to the
office as a whole about problems like this to make sure everyone knows that it
is not tolerated.
Engaging employees should be easy. You should be able to get
along together as a company to work as effectively as you can. A way of doing
this is planning out of work activities together, whether it is just a meal or
something more adventurous such as paintballing. Something where you are all
together and not in the working environment. If someone’s birthday is coming up,
celebrate it! Bring a cake into the office! Making an effort with all your
employees will make them enjoy work more and want to be there because it’s not
all about work.
Overall, having a good organisational structure and
diminishing bad beliefs and practises will help keep the structure strong.
Making sure that your retained employees stay happy and positive while also
following the company’s values and beliefs will keep the business steady.
Sources
https://www.socialcapitalresearch.com/overcoming-negative-organisational-culture/
https://inside.6q.io/10-warning-signs-negative-corporate-culture/
https://bizfluent.com/info-8295902-pros-cons-workplace-equality.html
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