Your business growth is linked with your Organizational culture

Culture is defined by a set of beliefs, values, attitudes and lifestyle that is specific to a group of people, originating and living in a specific region. Needless to say, culture is powerful enough to mold the habits, thinking patterns and objectives of these people. People coming from two different cultures are likely to conceive a problem in a different manner; they’ll go after solving this problem in their own way and the level of dedication will also be different. Bottom line, culture can cast positive or negative effects on the overall personalities and consequently the fate of the nations.

If the culture can make or break a nation (along with many other factors), there’s every chance that the organizational culture is going to play an equally important role in the overall success or failure of a company.

What is organizational culture?
Similar to the national culture, organizational culture is a set of values, objectives and attitudes that exists and prevails within an organization. If you have been a part of different organizations in any capacity, you’ll most probably be aware of the variance in organizational cultures. Whenever you move to a new organization, you have to make changes in your personality and attitudes according to their culture or you can try to change the culture itself if you are sitting at some managerial positions (it’s going to be tough though). However, once the culture incorporates the positive values, vision and directions, you can be sure that the company is heading into the right direction.

How does it affect the business?
In many ways, for example culture will form the character of your company (and the character of your employees), it develops an ownership among the staff, and it ties them in a bond and improves collaboration. A positive and strong culture sends out strong messages to your clients, as well as your competitors. Similarly strong organizational culture helps in shaping up the workforce, especially if it is coming from diverse backgrounds.

Laying foundation of a strong Organizational culture:
Once established, Organizational culture is very hard to change, this is something you need to work on right from the start. Characteristics of Organizational culture travel from the top management to lower staff, the dedication and the attitude you want to see in your workers should be noticeable in you, as a manager. Also, you should endorse the culture in company meetings, workshops or any other event that take place.

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How to dress professionally for different occasions

Dressing professionally is a part of corporate lifestyle, which you have to adopt even if you are not keen to dress formally in your routine life. You can spend hours and hours in advocating casual dressing as an attribute of being yourself, but the fact remains that your appearance does matter and your attire plays an important role in your overall appearance. If nothing else, it shows how enthusiastic you are about the job; a casual or sporty dress can represent you as someone who doesn’t take his/her job seriously. Needless to say, such flippancy means no job (if you are dressed up badly in an interview), or no promotion (if you don’t get dressed professionally in the workplace). Call it the narrow-mindedness or unfairness of the people, but this is the corporate world for you.

Have you not heard the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do”? Similarly, corporate life has its own culture and you need to acclimatize with it. Let’s have a look at some suggestions on how to get dressed for different business occasions.

Getting dressed for Interviews:

Whether you should wear a suit for the interview or not, depends on the job you will be interviewed for, however in many cases it is the safest and the least fussy option available. However, a clean, long sleeved shirt with black or navy pants can also do the job. Do not try to give a youthful impression by dressing overly casual, as it’s not going to impress the interviewer in most situations. You can skip the tie, if you think being too formal is unnecessary. Avoid jeans, collarless shirts or sneakers for the interview, same rules apply to both interviewer and the interviewee.


Office or workplace:

Once you have got the job, you can easily ask about (or just observe) the dress code at workplace and follow that. However, being a greenhorn you should be a little more careful than those senior ones. If you see them wearing casual stuff, doesn’t mean you have got the license to put on street wear on next weekend.

Business meetings:
There are various types of business meetings, for example a meeting within your workplace; or you may be meeting with a client in their office or at a restaurant; then there are those events when people are looking to network with potential clients or partners. All of these business meeting require different attires, such as formal, informal, semi formal or casual (for events like business cocktail parties).