| Are you looking for a clear definition of corporate | | | | · Work Environment |
| culture? You have come to the right place!I have | | | | · Benefits |
| developed a definition of corporate culture after nearly | | | | · Perks |
| 20 years of working with organizations and viewing | | | | · Conversations |
| them from the perspective of a cultural anthropologist | | | | · Work/Life Balance |
| as well as a strategy consultant with an MBA in | | | | · Titles & Job Descriptions |
| finance.The easiest way to think of corporate culture | | | | · Organizational Structure |
| is that it is an energy field that determines how people | | | | · RelationshipsThe far more powerful aspects of |
| think, act, and view the world around them. I often | | | | corporate culture are invisible. The cultural core is |
| compare culture to electricity. Culture is powerful and | | | | composed of the beliefs, values, standards, paradigms, |
| invisible and its effects are far reaching. Culture is an | | | | worldviews, moods, internal conversations, and private |
| energy force that becomes woven through the | | | | conversations of the people that are part of the group. |
| thinking, behavior, and identity of those within the | | | | This is the foundation for all actions and decisions |
| group.Corporate culture is created naturally and | | | | within a team, department, or organization.Core Layer |
| automatically. Every time people come together with a | | | | of Corporate Culture: Invisible Manifestations· |
| shared purpose, culture is created. This group of | | | | Values |
| people could be a family, neighborhood, project team, | | | | · Private Conversations (with self or confidants) |
| or company. Culture is automatically created out of the | | | | · Invisible Rules |
| combined thoughts, energies, and attitudes of the | | | | · Attitudes |
| people in the group.I have worked with entrepreneurs | | | | · Beliefs |
| and venture capitalists involved in the start-up of | | | | · Worldviews |
| technology companies. They want to work on the | | | | · Moods and Emotions |
| corporate culture once the company is profitable or "in | | | | · Unconscious Interpretations |
| the black". It is much more difficult to change the | | | | · Standards |
| corporate culture once it has emerged than to | | | | · Paradigms |
| proactively create the corporate culture they want | | | | · AssumptionsBusiness leaders often assume |
| from the start.The corporate culture energy field | | | | that their company's vision, values, and strategic |
| determines a company's dress code, work | | | | priorities are synonymous with their company's culture. |
| environment, work hours, rules for getting ahead and | | | | Unfortunately, too often, the vision, values, and strategic |
| getting promoted, how the business world is viewed, | | | | priorities may only be words hanging on a plaque on |
| what is valued, who is valued, and much more.Every | | | | the wall.Corporate culture is actually the container for |
| company or organizations has numerous corporate | | | | the vision, mission and values. It is not synonymous with |
| cultures. For example, the marketing department and | | | | them. In a thriving profitable company, employees will |
| the engineering department may have very different | | | | embody the values, vision, and strategic priorities of |
| corporate cultures which are both influenced by the | | | | their company.What creates this embodiment (or lack |
| overall organizational corporate culture. Many times | | | | of embodiment) is the corporate culture energy field |
| these two sub-cultures clash.Culture shows up in both | | | | that permeates the employees' psyches, bodies, |
| visible and invisible ways. Some expressions of | | | | conversations, and actions. |
| corporate culture are easy to observe. You can see | | | | Companies need a good definition of corporate |
| the dress code, work environment, perks, and titles in a | | | | culture before they can begin to understand how to |
| company. This is the surface layer of culture. These | | | | change the corporate culture.Find out how to shift your |
| are only some of the visible manifestations of a | | | | corporate culture to increase profits and retain |
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| Expressions·Dress Code | | | | corporate culture. |