Company culture - what is it?
I've been working for the same company for 7 years now... and for me until recently it's been like a second home. We've had a huge influx of new people over the past two years - and they are mostly people with strong personalities. All these years it didn't matter. The management team was a strong interlinked team. They gave the same messages, and believed in the same 'culture' for want of a better word. But recently two managers (who joined at around the same time as me and who moved through the organization with me) left, and we've now for the first time in a long while, got a management team where the 'newbies' are more than the 'oldies' (again, for want of better words).
And this is not to say I don't like the newbies. I like most of them. Some of them, a lot! But it's tiring. It's tiring to have to keep setting people straight. And since they are in relatively senior positions it's difficult. It's not the same as telling a fresher how to behave. A fresher will do what you say because he has not already been exposed to some other culture. But a manager will usually say 'well in my last office...'
Guess time will tell how we weather this change and move into the future. I've always been an advocate of change and 'freshness'. Let's see how I deal with this!
I've been working for the same company for 7 years now... and for me until recently it's been like a second home. We've had a huge influx of new people over the past two years - and they are mostly people with strong personalities. All these years it didn't matter. The management team was a strong interlinked team. They gave the same messages, and believed in the same 'culture' for want of a better word. But recently two managers (who joined at around the same time as me and who moved through the organization with me) left, and we've now for the first time in a long while, got a management team where the 'newbies' are more than the 'oldies' (again, for want of better words).
And this is not to say I don't like the newbies. I like most of them. Some of them, a lot! But it's tiring. It's tiring to have to keep setting people straight. And since they are in relatively senior positions it's difficult. It's not the same as telling a fresher how to behave. A fresher will do what you say because he has not already been exposed to some other culture. But a manager will usually say 'well in my last office...'
Guess time will tell how we weather this change and move into the future. I've always been an advocate of change and 'freshness'. Let's see how I deal with this!
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