After years of discussion and research, one thing is clear about workplace culture: Getting it right is very important. Like employer branding, culture exists in every organization, whether everyone is aware of it or not. Also as with employer branding, it is very important that leaders in organizations take the reins of their culture; otherwise, it will have an uncontrolled definition.
I recently sat down with Tabitha Laser, an expert and author of the recently released book Organization Culture Killers, to have a detailed discussion about culture. Laser officially defines culture as “an integrative pattern of human knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors and basically, it’s the way we do things around here. It’s always present and shifts easily depending on the situation.”
