Failure is often feared, perceived as a threat to reputation and a sign of incompetence. However, it is failure in its very self that plays a critical role in driving innovation and learning within organisations.
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The concept of culture varies depending on who you ask, but one thing remains true—organisational culture is a key factor in any company's success and sustainability.
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Culture and organisational behaviour is the personality of a company seen through the eyes of the employees. Positive company culture improves company growth and success. So, a company often has a set of values that they operate under and in order to create a culture that enables value to be delivered to their customers, they should take steps to collect data on the effectiveness of their culture, and that is done with careful measuring. In this blog we explore how and why you should measure the culture of your organisation.
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Organisational culture is more important than ever. Continuous digitisation, scarcity in talent and skills are a fact that organisations are increasingly dealing with, so for a People Analytics team and/or other relevant practitioners’ organisational culture should be addressed as a matter of importance. Organisations often are well equipped to report on ‘hard’ organisational outcomes such as safety or risk indicators. However, gaining a grasp on ‘soft’ culture indicators and their relationship to these outcomes is more difficult. In this article five steps are shared to enable people analytics teams, organisational researchers and other relevant practitioners to start with quantifying this big concept and provide organisations with tools for working on organisational culture.
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Organisational culture is typically understood as comprising of the following elements, which are important measures of culture: signs and symbols, shared practices and underlying assumptions of an organisation. The pandemic has had a significant and indisputable impact on these basic elements of culture, and as organisations now look to adapt to new hybrid models of work, understanding how company culture has changed and how to develop effective culture change programmes is increasingly important. In this blog we share four top tips to measure culture in a hybrid workplace as well as examples of how organisations are putting these into practice.
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