Does Your Organization Have A Maverick Culture?
Poorly communicated set of corporate cultural values tends
to emotionally charge employees with feelings of uneasiness or non-responsiveness. In addition it tends to enhance the
nit-picking - fault finding – hypercritical symptoms, thus causing toxic levels
of distrust, lack of loyalty and out and out disruptive behavior within the
organization. Employees, ALL employees,
thrive on and deserve recognition not continual carping criticism.
The danger of this type of culture not only includes discord
within the organization but has a high level of seeping into the overall business
world and local communities. Once this
happens, the word spreads like an out of control wild fire about the Maverick culture
within the company.
Your organization becomes known as a not so nice place to
work. The locals talk about their
neighbors quitting or getting terminated.
And usually they all believe terminated for the wrong reasons. Recruiters have difficulty convincing prospective
new employees to hire on, because the word is on the street that their tenure
might be short lived.
Maverick over achievers don’t stay long. They reach their perceived personal piqué of
value and start looking for a new hunting ground to feed their quest for notoriety,
or the next short hop to the top and usually for more compensation. Maverick over achievers want to be the
continual star of the show and in most cases they do not care where the bodies
lie behind them.
All companies must have revenue streams that support the
company. But if you don’t have a
definition, a set of values, a set of goals, the proper hiring mindset, “FAIR”
motivational factors that include all levels of employees, then your company is
NOT running on all cylinders. Your
revenue stream is being attacked every day and many times the “C” level folks
don’t realize it until it reaches an epidemic intensity.
BOTTOM LINE…..Your
System Is Broken! Employee Retention
Will Be Off The Charts…..Cost Of Replacement Of Employees Will Silently Affect
The Profit Of Your Organizations Bottom Line….Employees Will Quit Their Bosses
Because They Know Their Bosses Are Trying To Enforce A Broken System….And Worst
Of All, Employees Will Go Into The Business World Believing That Top Management
And Owners Just Do Not Care. And they
will tell their side of the story.
We can help.
George F. Mancuso, CPC
President
Client Growth Consultants, Inc.
Grinnell, IA
ClientGrowthConsultants.com
I had a boss once who said he was a maverick and boy did the company have a maverick culture. Replete with the disfunction you describe.
ReplyDeleteI maintain the words of my company's culture to include transparency, honesty, trust and integrity. But you know, some people will agree to the words and act in a self-serving way without regard to their level headed peers. What do I do then? How do I fix the broken wheel in the culture?
Exactly the point. Managers/executives that wear two faces end up with two results and those are mostly bad.
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