The Importance of Culture in the Workplace

Culture in organizations gives workers a common identity and challenges assumptions. In a working environment, employees are connected through shared values and beliefs. Providing workers with shared meaning allow them to think and relate to one another, creating a space where simple perspectives are challenged. Through interaction, workers embrace open-mindedness, and rationality, and form assumptions. They can also embrace people for whom they are without trying to change them. These realities challenge their moral, psychological, and cognitive perspectives that encourage them to see the world in a different light. As Laloux (2014) assert, when people face problems, they either ignore the problem or grow into complex perspectives that inform a different worldview. Since employees engage with people from different backgrounds and points of view, they can identify with the need to welcome a different perspective to find solutions to problems. Also, it helps in decision-making, which is integral to organizational development. Entities are about finding a balance on how power is exerted. Through collective decision-making that incorporates the cultural method of control, all levels of workers within the corporation feel valued, which positively influences quick decision-making. Indeed, considering various perspectives to decision-making challenges top leadership moral values that do not align with that of employees. Laloux (2014) argue that people develop sensitivity to situations with fewer ego fears, which encourages people to express an opinion if they do not feel that things are right. If employees feel the company's top leaders are enforcing power without considering their values and attitudes, problems are deemed to occur. Nonetheless, for success, employers who encourage a working culture that acknowledges the need for different views yield better results. The concept of wholeness is crucial as it helps people harness their full potential. Through wholeness, workers can appreciate the inner desire to understand the most complex issues and people with different personalities without judgment. In the same manner, they become fully aware of other people's capabilities and insights. For instance, they can deduce their egos and acknowledge that some colleagues make better accountants, writers, human resource managers, or even receptionists. As Laloux (2014) outline, people become capable of separating their personal and professional lives and, most importantly, the idea of competition. As workers integrate their bodies, minds, and souls into their working spaces, they become motivated and fulfilled in their work and strive to do better. When people can see beyond prejudices, they can appreciate what they can offer, seek more, and understand their relationship with others without feeling they have to compete in an unhealthy manner. COVID-19 could encourage a more individualistic culture. Since the pandemic began, organizations have embraced the option of working from home. With minimal physical interaction, the idea of isolation could translate into the working environment. Even as entities use technology to communicate within groups, the inability to be in the same room with co-workers will leave a sense of acknowledging the new normal. Also, as the communication channels change, the interpersonal connection loses its intensity as we become comfortable not saying much. Such discourages the sense of inclusion. Indeed, as fear of the unknown continues to impact decisions, workers are left with wishful thinking and ignoring problems for what they are. According to Laloux (2014), when organizations are driven by fear, endless meetings, and bureaucratic rules, they become ego-ridden where people fail to see the entity's noble purpose. Similarly, with zoom meetings having the centre focus on top leadership meetings, companies that do not adopt better strategies to engage subordinates could see an individualistic entity that loses its noble course. 

Reference 

Laloux, F. (2014). Reinventing organizations: A guide to creating organizations inspired by the next stage in human consciousness. Nelson Parker.