The current pandemic has left stakeholders in the corporate world in a spot of bother. We’re battling a medical crisis while also troubled by the new normal of working from home and reduced social interaction. Not many people are reacting well to this, and the air of incongruity surrounding workplaces makes things even more difficult.

While companies might neglect the need to do so, it is even more important for them today to maintain and uphold their culture. The culture can […]

Scaling up the size of your organization and growing is a good thing. It means that your brainchild is slowly and gradually growing to the size you wanted it to and is climbing the ladder to success. However, most organizations face the same old problem of maintaining company culture once they start growing.

As companies grow in size, it becomes seemingly hard for them to maintain the same values, core competencies and culture they once prided themselves on. Rapid expansion can […]

Out of all the declared enemies of happiness and productivity at work, monotony happens to be the deadliest. Employees can manage truckloads of work being dumped on them, they can manage having to put up with a bossy manager, but monotony can just guzzle the life out of them. It is a slow poison that eventually rids employees of their willingness to excel and give their best at work.

Monotony is synonymous to a never-ending labyrinth or even more so, a […]

Workplace culture is just as important to productivity as anything else. If you want your organization to grow and benefit from the right employees, it is necessary that you focus on workplace culture and reduce all forms of office politics from the workplace.

If your workplace culture and the relationship between employees is not duly monitored, politics will eventually rise and wreak havoc. Negative politics in the workplace usually includes different opinions between groups of workers over policies or other workplace […]

We know the importance of diversity in the workplace. Diversity increases your return on investment; it helps foster a lot more innovative ideas and helps create a more sustainable and inclusive work environment. It is a proven fact that companies with a diverse workforce are almost 35 percent more likely to get financial results better than the industry median.

The strength of an organization lies in differences and not similarity. If you want your organization to grow, it is extremely necessary […]

Managing a team of diverse employees can be difficult, because conflicts are always on the card. If your workplace culture is not exactly accommodating, employees will get involved in petty competition and try to backstab others for their own gains. This leads to conflicts and disputes within the organization, where you will have to eventually step in.

In this article, we will look at some of the actions you should take and others that you shouldn’t take while resolving conflict. But, […]

Conference calls, internet, emails, smoke breaks, gossip sessions and meetings are all known as productivity killers inside the workplace. However, besides these commonly known hindrances, temperature also has a massive role to play in dictating productivity and focus levels inside the workplace.

A new study on this subject matter has found out that hot weather can lead to significant economic losses including loss in productivity, because employees aren’t as productive as they used to be. This means that even adaptation methods […]

HR teams and managers would have a fair idea of how hard it can be to develop positive competition in the workplace today. You’re playing on a thin line and any false step can lead you into the atrocious perils of office politics.

Managers are often very indecisive when it comes to creating competition in the workplace. Competition can very easily turn into politics and you will have people backstabbing each other to get into the good books of the management.

While […]