ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE

The ideas, customs and social behaviour of how people of a specific group perform is known as the culture of that particular group. From formal groups, to informal groups, every single group have their own culture. The culture of any community depends on the people forming it. An organisational culture is the collection of ethics, expectations and practices that direct the working of the company and its team members. It can be seen as the set of things that makes a company what it is and where it stands.

Organisational culture combines the behaviour of all members of company within each other, how they handle failures and successes, and how they work for better environment within the organisation, as well as how they treat and work for their customers. A healthy organisational culture can make a company with the lowest resources flourish, while an unhealthy organisational culture can act as a major obstacle for even the finest of companies with maximum amount of resources. A disturbed organisational culture can even result in the downfall of a well-established company.

A well cultured company ensures everything from a safe work environment for employees, punctuality, polite tone of speaking, to healthy internal as well as external communication. In the current scenario, around 50 percent of both budding as well as existing employees prefer organisational culture over the stipend of the job. We can look at it in a way that if two companies pay a person the same salary and provide him/her with the same job incentives, which other factor would he consider? He would most likely look into how he will be TREATED there. If there is enough respect amongst the people of the organisation for each other, or is one always trying to pull their fellow employees down? Is the CEO of the company a leader or a boss?  How much do seniors respect their subordinates? To what extent do the people of the company push themselves to achieve targeted goals?  All these questions fall under the category of “What is the culture of the organisation?” The culture of the organisation is one of the most prominent factors of job satisfaction.

In the above mentioned picture, we can see a number of factors that ensure a healthy organisational culture. The hierarchy here no where signifies the importance of a factor, each and every factor have an equal role to play in maintaining the culture of the company.

Let us now dive deep into the qualities of a great organisational structure:

•  The personal goals of individuals of the company are in alignment with the combined goal of the organisation.
• Where work and progress of every member of the company is acknowledged, appreciated and if possible, rewarded.
• Where everyone have sheer share of trust, trust that every one will do his work with his full potential and hence there is no unnecessary intervention with each other’s works.
• Where everyone is motivated to do their part of the jobs, and motivate the fellow employees to do theirs.
• Teamwork: Everyone besides doing their individual tasks, work together as a team, constantly supporting and lifting one another.
•   An organisation where there is continuous upgradation and innovation in the goals as well as methods of performance of the organisation.
•   Where people value and look after the emotional and psychological well being of everyone in the organisation.

The above mentioned isn’t the list of ALL factors of a great organisational structure, but these might be some of the most important ones. Attaining every single factor of the list might be extremely tough for an organisation but one can surely choose the most apt for them, subjectively, depending on its individual goals to be achieved.