Corporate culture

This webinar discusses the importance of an effective whistleblowing framework, along with factors to consider when establishing such a framework and responding to concerns raised by employees.

A look at what employers and employees can do to create healthier organization cultures - so that organizations and employees can flourish in today’s challenging economic times. Drawing upon research about the modern organization, the authors identify ten recommendations to help organizations create healthier and thriving work cultures. They also identify ten action steps which employees can proactively take to help themselves and their organizations to thrive.

Dr. Robert H. Lengel discusses a way to host strategic conversations bringing stakeholders together in pursuit of changing organizational culture. He describes a method he has developed called 'conversation walls', which involves collating anonymous phrases used by staff in both their public and private conversations. This aims to reveal pent-up negativity and emotions which are not given space for expression in traditional business meetings.

Developing a culture that prioritizes innovation is the key to creating long-term sustainable value, say the authors. They use three companies as case studies - Reading Bakery Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and the LEGO Group.

Companies that actively communicate shared core values are in a better position to achieve high creativity within project teams. The authors suggest designing projects so that team members have highly interdependent tasks but teams as a whole also have the ability to self-manage, without a team manager restricting their creative autonomy.