Impacts of culture towards an IT organization.

What is culture?

(Moy, 2018)

“It defines the environment in which employees work. Company culture includes a variety of elements, including work environment, company mission, value, ethics, expectations, and goals.” (Doyle, 2019)

In most IT organizations, they tend to follow a relax and free environment towards its employees in order to enhance efficiency. These type organizations are filled with knowledge workers; hence, they prefer the freedom and it will in return improve productivity and efficiency.

Why company culture matters?

When the company culture fits with employees, workers are more likely to enjoy their time in the workplace. On the other hand, if you work for a company where the culture does not fit you, you are far less likely to take fare less please out of your work.

When employees are fit with their culture, then productivity also gets increases while enhancing the ability to create innovation. This also improves employee retention.

For example, at IFS, one of the leading ERP solution providers in the world, have a culture where employees are required to dress in smart casual dresses and they have flexible working hours up to some extent. Furthermore, in emergency situations or urgent family needs, they are allowed to work from home.

Due to these types of benefits, almost all the employees are tightly bound with the company’s culture, hence the employee retention is high, which is the most significant factor to an IT organization. For example, at IFS normal employee retention time is 11 years by 2918.  (Rathmann, 2018)

What can a bad culture cause?

Lack of growth

With a bad company culture, employee turnover rate will get high and then the companies’ profits will also lose the target. Company will have to struggle with the recruitments and training  

Careless Approach

“Working in a poor organizational culture promotes careless behavior by its staff. There is a lack of ethics that discourages workers from paying careful attention to duties and customer service. The atmosphere is casual to the point where careless behaviors such as using profanity, dressing inappropriately and expressing thoughtlessness in client interactions pervade. Professionalism suffers greatly in this type of workplace environment.” (Mooney, 2018)

Neglectful Attitudes

Poor culture means a lack of leadership in getting work done, this will in return leads to negative attitudes on employees. These kinds of attitudes will delay the jobs, lowering productivity and effectiveness.

Taking all these factors into account, it is proved that proper company culture is a must for a successful business. When it comes to the IT industry, better productivity, timeliness, and product quality is a must. Hence, it is recommended that all the IT organization should have its own culture where an employee can fit in easily.

What about your own organization or your company? Are you happy with the company culture you experience now? If not, what are the changes you expect from your organization?

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