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Creating a positive work culture

The building and sustaining of a Positive Work Culture is a major step towards increasing wellbeing and performance of individuals and organisations. The steps to be taken become the bloodstream of organisations resulting in trust, commitment and engagement of staff to their organisation that produces a result of improved performance and higher quality of service.

Organisations are controlled communities. In the face of increasing incidence of psychological distress amongst people at work there is a growing under-performance from organisations. This is largely due to the disconnection between the cultural foundations of organisations and the display of cultural behaviours. This will become more obvious as economic constraints bite hard and personal survival will dominate how managers behave.

The cultural foundations described here will enable leaders to display behaviours and subtle signals that encourage and engage staff from different professional groups to work in harmony for relatively minor investment.

Positive Work Cultures

Positive Work Cultures are built on wellbeing and performance. Building a Positive Work Culture requires attention to be paid to the principal cultural foundations of the organisation – the purpose, the structure, the processes and the behaviours of the managers. If these are built to a specification of virtuous intent, values, psychological contract, trust and commitment, then employee engagement is almost assured.