Organizational culture focuses on how people believe they are expected to behave. 

These behavioural norms (beliefs and assumptions) guide how people work and should go about fulfilling their roles.

Emeritus Professor Robert Cooke (Human Synergistics, 2017) defines organizational culture as:

“The behavioral norms and expectations, shaped in part by shared values and beliefs, that guide organizational members in how they should approach their work and interact with one another”

As Human Synergistics emphasize this is different to organizational climate – that is, employee engagement.

An organization’s ‘culture’ is now more transparent in this digital world and it creates innovation and brings teams together. Bersin (2016) states that “study after study have shown that companies with a strong sense of purpose and a clearly defined set of cultural values outperform their peers”.

Here are six approaches to build a more constructive culture.

Contact us if you are interested in Building a More Constructive Culture. We use the internationally recognized Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI)® by Human Synergistics.