Dive Brief:
- Culture needs to provide a positive, supportive workplace that eventually raises profits or some other success measure. Yet, employers continue to struggle to find the sweet spot, according to an article at Greenwich Time.
- A Society for Human Resource Management official in Connecticut told Greenwich Time that workplace culture basically starts with the CEO and involves even the smallest details of the work environment.
- Workplace culture is best defined as "how people are treated, how they’re promoted, how ideas are listened to...it all starts at the top,” Susan Blazer, president of SHRM's southern Connecticut chapter, told Greenwich Time.
Dive Insight:
"Workplace culture starts with the CEO and involves even the smallest details of the work environment," Blazer added. "Everything matters. For example, titles and expectations. Do people go by first names or do they have their title on the door?”
In the end, Blazer said, building a positive, productive workplace culture requires a "two-way street that involves both the employees and the employers working together to accommodate and acknowledge the needs and vision of each."
