Business people want to grow their own company. And to drive company growth requires more human resources and must hire more new employees. The chance these employees will see different goals, values, or work methods can occur. Therefore, organizational culture carefully cultivated might weaken... And to find ways to handle situations appropriately, here are 5 methods to maintain strong organizational culture even as organization expands growth.
5 Methods to Maintain Corporate Culture When Organization Grows
Make Core Values More Concrete
If you have corporate Core Values, what should be done next is breaking down those values into "behaviors" that can be followed. For example, "Respect" can be broken down into 1) being a good listener and 2) spending time considering each idea everyone proposes equally. Defining values into behaviors like this changes from abstract values to concrete ones and helps everyone see same picture of how to behave, making it easier for employees to learn, measure, and follow Core Values.
Value Culture from Selecting People for Organization
Ability can be trained, but attitude if doesn't fit from start probably can't be adjusted later. Selecting people who fit organizational culture and vision from start is therefore important. Like Ngern Tidlor values ‘Culture Fit’ very much in Interview Guidelines to project picture for applicants to see where organization aims to grow and how.
And here are example questions Ngern Tidlor uses to measure whether interviewees fit organization:
- Have you participated in activities for society?
- Have you or someone close to you had experience with loan sharks?
- Please share experience when you made work mistake, how you fixed it, and what you learned
- What work output are you most proud of in the past? Why?
Use Mixed Training
Many companies strengthen corporate culture through workshops, workshops, and more workshops. This training method has advantages in terms of closeness and learning teammates' personalities. But there are obstacles in comprehensiveness if recruiting many new employees instead. Organizations should therefore use mixed training both offline and online that takes less time and can self-learn, including instilling practice guidelines or "values" through actions and activities within organization.
Focus More on Employee Opinions
Employees are excellent information source for understanding how current corporate culture is, whether changing for better or worse, and what needs changing when organization starts expanding. Therefore, if you're worried about maintaining culture while organization is growing, try asking their opinions. Like Ngern Tid Lor PLC that always sends surveys for employees to express opinions in every activity, to take their hearts and care for organization, learn and understand, to improve better.
Must Adapt When Necessary
Maintaining good corporate culture doesn't mean that culture must always stay the same. Sometimes culture that worked with 500 employees doesn't work anymore when having 5,000 employees. If wanting to maximize work efficiency, must be open-minded and ready to change culture as necessary. Like Ngern Tid Lor PLC that struggled to build corporate culture working for thousands of employees for many years. You can study our story here
Summary
Growth is exciting and leads to many new opportunities. But without adaptation and problem-solving along the way, might have to exchange losing good corporate culture and organization's unique identity. Don't worry. Because if you deeply understand corporate culture, listen to opinions, and adapt when necessary, you can keep company culture strong, no matter how many new employees you add to team or however large or fast your organization expands.
If you want to learn more about our journey and the way we've done it, join TIDLOR Culture Wow and exchange ideas about values with us!
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