4 Tips to Help Build a Healthy Culture
No matter your industry, your long-term success as a company strongly correlates to how well you’ve managed to define your ethics and compliance, both inside and outside the organizational structure. A mistake made by many businesses – small or large – is to leave this in the realm of the abstract.
Conflicts and confrontations seem to be part of almost every organization’s life. Every other day we are faced with news of misconduct in the workplace, where numerous prominent figures in media, business or politics now have the secrets of their unethical behavior blasted on speakers for the entire world to hear.
But these moments aren’t just about sexual misconduct, though since mid-2017, when Harvey Weinstein was first accused of assault, it seems like the cat was let out of the bag for any figurehead in a similar situation. With the data breach at Equifax, the bribery accusations at Samsung or Uber’s long list of allegations – and the list goes on – you may be wondering if the world is that much worse today than it was decades ago.
The answer is no, unethical behavior and corruption are not just traits of today’s society. Instead, we’re becoming more aware of them now than before, or we’re more likely to listen to accusations…
