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What are some things a company can do to make its culture nicer?

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Question added by Rana Alnajjar , Web developer , Lebcards
Date Posted: 2015/05/24
Alex Al Yazouri
by Alex Al Yazouri , General Manager , Al Mushref Cooperative Society

Conducting good business ethics, quality management, fair and good communication from top to bottom.

Amir Ageeb
by Amir Ageeb , Content Senior Specialist , Elm Company

Thanks for the invite,

I think the experts have provided good answers in this regard. I just want to vote up many of these answers.

 

As Saleh
by As Saleh , Recruitment Manager , Saudi House Recruitment

Continuous improvement in performance and training for development work

Build confidence among all workers

 

Develop policies and systems performance staff and good self-control surveillance

khaled elkholy
by khaled elkholy , HR MANAGER , misk for import & export

Companies can do a lot to improve the culture within their office walls from offering competitive perks to implementing strong values.

Although internal culture is the foundation laid out by employers, it is up to employees to make it thrive.

Why is it so important for employees to put in the grunt work? A good work culture is most beneficial for the actual cogs in the system, or the employees who keep things running, says Leslie Caccamese, director of marketing and research at Great Place to Worka consulting and training firm aimed at sustaining great workplaces.

We spoke to Caccamese about the three things employees can do to make their second home a great place to work:

1. Participate in the perks offered.

You can't sit around wishing you worked in a better work culture if you don't participate in it, says Caccamese. This means that if your company sponsors a5K run, you should participate in it.

2. Get involved.

The more you feel like your voice is heard, the more you will feel a responsibility and commitment to the company. How do you make your voice heard? Caccamese advises to get involved with teams that contribute to strategic planning, creating events or charitable initiatives, and even participating in referral programs for new hires.

"When everyone feels a responsibility for perpetuating the culture, the culture thrives," she says."When employees expect that the culture is something that is given to them, it fails."

3. Trust your colleagues.

"High trust relationships are the foundation of every great workplace," says Caccamese. "That means that executives walk the talk and share information and involve employees in decision making. Everyone is given opportunities to advance, promotions and pay are given fairly, and employees enjoy a family feel."

Employees need to be able to trust that their colleagues have your best interest in mind. This means depending on one another and valuing each other's work and contributions. There shouldn't be too much competition between the workers or they won't feel like they are on the same team. At the end of the day, the company needs to feel like one entity moving toward a single goal together, says Caccamese.

Nasir Hussain
by Nasir Hussain , Sales And Marketing Manager , Pakistan Pharmaceutical Products Pvt. Ltd.

Agreed to Mr. Alex...........................

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

There are a few ways to accomplish this, and they don't involve being considerate or agreeable:

  • Hire well and make it clear that everyone is good at their jobs.  Remove people who are not.  This makes it more likely that when people debate and criticism, they remember that the person is good, but (because startups require extraordinary effort), it is the work that inevitably has flaws; hence continual refinement.
  • Align everyone very strongly and publicly to the startup's ultimate mission.  Doing this publicly yields an understanding that there is a shared sense of mission, so people will also trust that people doing radically different jobs from theirs are still working towards the same goal, and criticisms will be more likely to center around methods (and not motives).
  • Give people difficult assignments where they have true opportunities to fail and then recover.  While failure hurts, respect is earned amongst peers by visibly contending with a difficult situation and succeeding, even if the success comes after an initial failure.  Everyone is inevitably going to fuck stuff up; it's the people who can clean up their mess who earn respect.  Give them the chance to fuck up.

Ibrahim Hussein Mayaleh
by Ibrahim Hussein Mayaleh , Sales & Business Consultant and Trainer , Self-employed

- Clear ethics, rules and regulations

- Fairness- Respect for and from all levels

- Social events

- Rewarding, acknowledgement, recognition and motivation

- Good communication

- The right man in the right place

Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

A culture is the values and practices shared by the members of the group. Company Culture, therefore, is the shared values and practices of the company's employees.

Company culture is important because it can make or break your company. Companies with an adaptive culture that is aligned to their business goals routinely outperform their competitors. Some studies report the difference at200% or more.

To achieve results like this for your organization, you have to figure out what your culture is, decide what it should be, and move everyone toward the desired culture.

Company cultures evolve and they change over time. As employee leave the company and replacements are hired the company culture will change. If it is a strong culture, it may not change much. However, since each new employee brings their own values and practices to the group the culture will change, at least a little. As the company matures from a startup to a more established company, the company culture will change. As the environment in which the company operates (the laws, regulations, business climate, etc.) changes, the company culture will also change.

 

These changes may be positive, or they may not. The changes in company culture may be intended, but often they are unintended. They may be major changes or minor ones. The company culture will change and it is important to be aware of the changes.

 

Irina Chepel
by Irina Chepel , Personal trainer , Freelancer

There are given full answers

IRPHAN GHANI
by IRPHAN GHANI , Senior Management , A

Try doing all things that makes people enjoy their job roles and enhance productivity.

Salil Mehta
by Salil Mehta , CEO , CEO Thar Lifespaces

Company culture, Transparency of operations, adequate feed back process and product training. Obviously all this linked with good incentives/bonuses for the performers.

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