Low Productivity? Look into Your Company Culture

As an employer, you have many responsibilities. Delivering products, attending customer service, and dealing with suppliers and partners. In order to ensure everything runs smoothly, you will need a positive company culture. 

Your company culture can leave a huge impact on your employees’ productivity. Here are some ways to create an efficient workplace:

Appreciate your employees

Toxic company cultures often make employees feel like their contributions don’t matter at all. If you do not make any effort to appreciate your employees, they have no reason to put in their best efforts. They might even start slacking off at work.

You cannot blame the employees in this scenario. If they think their effort does not matter, they will naturally take the easiest path. You will need to make effort matter in the workplace. You need to interact with employees and provide feedback, such as praising employees when they do make the best effort. 

39% of employees don’t feel appreciated at work.

Company culture affects morale

If your company culture turns for the worse and becomes toxic, your employees’ morale will be affected. There are many ways toxic culture can grow, such as negativity between different departments, harassment and bias being tolerated in the workplace. 

When that toxicity pervades throughout the culture, bad things will happen. Employees will go to work only to look at the clock until they go home. Employees will grow antagonistic against the company, customers and managers. You will have high turnover.

Overall, it’s always better to manage your company culture to prevent toxic problems before it affects the whole company.

Set your employees straight

Another issue with company culture happens when employees feel they don’t have strong direction from upper management about what is expected from them. Your company’s mission statement should be as clear as possible to explain what the end purpose of your company is. 

The mission statement should be reinforced by managers who help direct employees towards efforts to meet goals in line with that mission statement. All in all, your workers need to know what goals they are working towards.

Low productivity is a very serious problems that costs businesses billions of ringgit a year. There are many factors to this problem, but the key factor is your company culture. A positive company culture will help to give your employees direction and make their efforts recognised. 

Source: Hppy

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