Corporate Culture

Currently, there is a trend among corporations to change corporate culture. They try to make the office more "personal" or "homely" as corporations try to achieve work life balance. Although this is generally a good thing, I think changing corporate culture first lies on the objective of the corporation.

Changing corporate culture is very difficult to do since everyone must buy in to the ideas of top management. Moreover, a change of culture does not necessarily increase in productivity. I believe that corporate culture should first show the change in image the company would like to project towards stakeholders. For example, banks cannot copy the corporate culture of IT companies as bank must show a sense of professionalism and solidarity.

Also, it is diffcult to go against the corporate culture. This is usually frowned upon by top management and colleagues especially if the culture is very much entrenched. For those corporate cultures that are entrenched tend to be static and is the most difficult to change. Personally, I believe that corporate culture make or break the company. It is the company's prerogative on which values and norms to uphold. If the company culture is not competitive in today's work environment, then most likely this company has a greater turnover or has lack in productivity.