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Make Your Company Thrive!
Developing A Challenge Culture at Work

By Besty Taylor

BT 201807 HR 01      我们在查阅大公司的企业简介时,“企业文化”往往优先出现,帮助大家了解企业的精神与愿景。企业文化虽然看不见摸不着,但却融入了每个员工的工作言行中,从而在企业内部强化了团体意识,使企业职工之间形成强大的凝聚力和向心力。共同的价值观念构筑共同的目标和理想,整个企业方能步调一致,形成统一的整体。完美的企业文化会让员工对企业更为认可,也更容易帮助HR留下人才。

      具有挑战性的企业文化可以最大限度激发员工的工作潜力与创造力。那么如何确保员工在“狼性文化”等具有挑战性的企业文化氛围中为公司带来价值呢?

      首先要明确目标。目标明确员工才能根据目标调整自己的工作方法与工作步调,与团队形成良好的合力,推动整个企业的进步。目标的明确也可以让员工更为清晰地了解公司发展的愿景,形成对自己的激励。具有挑战性的企业文化强调每个人力量的最大发挥,所以,坚持问责制非常重要:无论是普通员工还是高层经理,都必须为自己所做的工作和任务负责到底。这样可以提升企业员工的主人翁意识感,并更加注重手头的工作,形成具有良好氛围的激励和竞争环境。

      充分了解自己员工的企业文化观是非常重要的,有些高管虽然任职多年,对公司全面了解,但是在发展过程中产生了不同价值观。这类员工并不适合公司未来的发展,对于公司危害极大,需要及早发现并替换。所以在日常工作中及时了解员工的思想动态,确认是否适应企业的挑战性文化是非常必要的。

      人才是企业重要的有形资产,是企业发展的第一资源,企业文化是企业重要的无形资产,是企业发展的软实力。企业文化与人力资源管理之间既相互联系又相互区别,深入了解、掌握两者间的互动关系,把“硬实力”的人力资源管理体系与“软实力”的企业文化有机结合起来,就能够在统筹物力资源、财务资源的基础上,更好的整合企业所拥有的人力资源,从而产生强大的协同效应,提高企业的核心竞争力,使企业获得持久的竞争优势。

BT 201807 HR 02Developing an effective culture at your workplace perhaps seems like one of a thousand tasks to achieve as a CEO. However, it is one of the most crucial responsibilities for any entrepreneur, as the vast majority of successful businesses have dynamic and challenging cultures. Such cultures are usually the result of long and vigilant thought process and analysis.
 

They are intended to answer queries like -

• What central values are crucial to your company?
• How do you share it with your workforce?
• How will your cultural values impact routine operations?
 

Your response to these aforementioned questions – as well as several others related to developing your corporate culture – will rightly share how that culture develops over a period of time. The fact is, either you get to form your company’s culture or it will inexorably shape itself. And you certainly do not want to let the company culture set itself.
 

So, how can you make sure that you create and maintain a challenging culture that will attract and also retain the type of workforce your business requires? Furthermore, how will you make sure that the challenging culture encourages your employees to work as well as interact in a manner that is consistent with the mission and vision of your organization?

BT 201807 HR 03Be Transparent and Set Clear Objectives

Creating a challenging cultural identity can seem like a vague and unstructured practice that is potentially limitless in scope. The prime step here is to get through this challenge in creating an easy-to-articulate and straightforward vision for what you intend to accomplish and the sort of approaches, attitudes and behaviors that are valued by your organization. Try to clearly explain, both to yourself and your workers, the challenging culture you intend to create. This should be in written form as it will help prevent your message from being distorted. Your team may not understand your cultural vision immediately, so it is vital that you set clear objective sand hold formal discussions of your perfect challenging environment to minimize confusion or deviation from that objective.
 

An example of a company that has lately lacked a rational and challenging corporate culture is Hewlett-Packard. Over the last few years, the tech giant has been led by several CEOs and has consequently experienced various strategic swings. Without the advantage of clear objectives and a corporate identity, employees were left to wonder where the company was headed and how they should be acting in order to maximize their possibilities of succeeding within the organization.

BT 201807 HR 04Focus on Accountability and Be Consistent

A challenging and effective culture initiates with the CEO and other organization leaders, proactively setting the tone. It permeates through the organization and the core team starts following it as they see this as an example. Your actions – how you take on the challenges present you as a role model for the culture of your business. If you consistently showcase it in the right manner, others will follow suit.
 

It is imperative that you apply same standards to everyone while observing the culture in action. If someone from your team comes up with a negative behavior that opposes your cultural vision, it is imperative to address it regardless of which role the individual holds in the organization. Do not give any special treatment, and persuade core management team to do the same with its direct reports.
 

Invest To Maintain and Enrich a Challenging Culture at Workplace

A challenging business culture is always growing. As your company grows, you will discover new business objectives and strategic initiates that you intend to implement. Just as you invest more in physical resources such as office space and IT it is crucial that you invest in the development and enhancement of your company culture over time.

BT 201807 HR 05Hire Values - Compatible Employees Only

Several businesses attempt to identify workers whose values are consistent with their own during the recruitment process. There are numerous talented people out there, but not all of them thrive within your certain business. You can indentify candidates who would be a great cultural fit by spending a fair bit of time asking them about past behaviors, motivation, and particularly what sort of a culture they are considering in their next role. Generally, what they say can be a great departure from the culture you have and are considering creating. It imperative that you identify the risks early on to ensure that such people do not join your company as they will be a misfit and would not be fulfilled. Recruiting the right person for the right job can make it easier for you to foster your targeted culture.
 

A strong and challenging workplace culture extends far beyond merely the perks you offer to your employees. The culture that prevails in your company is mainly the result of interaction that the team members have with one another, which begins with how you present such desired behaviors and attitudes as a leader of the company. Although flex-time and free lunches are munificent perks, they alone are not likely to lead the culture that you along your team will live. Always remember the fact that precision, consistency and strong commitment to your vision are the vital keys that can help you to build an effective and challenging culture for your business.

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