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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

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Company Culture: Are You Tolerating Toxicity?

Organizational Talent Consulting

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture. Here are five signs of a toxic culture and two detoxing steps every leader can take. Why Leaders Need to be Concerned About a Toxic Culture. Company culture is the one thing that influences every aspect of a business.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. It sought to make things better. References Holiday, R.

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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens

Harmonious Workplaces

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Leaders who embrace and leverage the strengths of each generation through intentional collaboration and reverse mentoring build a workplace culture that prioritizes psychological safety. Gerpott et al. Baby Boomers may tie psychological safety to job security and respect for hierarchy.

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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention

Harmonious Workplaces

This bias, predicated on age, undermines the principles of equity and diversity with potential ethical issues. Furthermore, helping people feel safe expressing their viewpoints, their culture, and their beliefs — no matter their age — may foster group identification and commitment while avoiding the risks of groupthink. MarketWatch.

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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . However, according to the survey by NewVantage Partners [1] conducted in 2021, only 24% of companies have managed to develop into data-driven ones. Cultural challenges.

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Embracing Selfless Love in the Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

There is no serious debate that well-designed organizations with clear organizational strategies influence desired behaviors, culture, and performance. Muel Kaptein introduced and validated the Corporate Ethical Virtues Mode l, which measures virtues at the organizational level. The Leadership Quarterly, 16 (5), 835-862. Kaptein, M.

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