Work Culture

It is a shared responsibility

July 1, 2022

For culture-building, everyone in the organisation is responsible. Shared responsibility for culture throughout an organisation involves different people and functions within the organisation playing different roles in developing and maintaining the culture.

What are the crucial elements of a strong democratic and transparent work culture?

SD Building a great company and positive work culture is an important component of a successful business. The success of any business depends on its organisational culture. With the right leadership, a positive organisational culture can spread throughout the workplace. Leaders need to be able to encourage a positive organisational culture in order to keep employees motivated and engaged. A well-known fact about work culture is that it can positively impact recruiting efforts, employee engagement, productivity, and customer service. That’s why leading businesses build their culture around teamwork, a shared mission and vision, and transparency.

While not every company embraces identical values with regard to organisational democracy, we can look for several of the following characteristics :

1. Leadership happens at every level of the organisation, not just at the top.
2. Firmly held core values that are organized, shared and...

Surbhi Dewan

in her current role, is a member of the leadership team heading HR at Ashiana Housing Ltd. PG in HR and alumnus of New York University is a certified PI & Topgrading practitioner with 20+ years' work experience across industries like Real Estate, Logistics, Public Relations, IT, Logistics and ITEs. She is a drafting committee member for the 1992 code of Practice on safety and health in the construction industry & has represented India at the International Labor Organization (ILO), Geneva. She has also been conferred with many HR awards.

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