Twelve Key Indicators of a healthy work culture:
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- Respect. Employees respect their fellow workers and work meaningfully to avoid personality conflicts, gossip, and backbiting.
- Creativity. Employees feel that their work exercises their creativity and imagination.
- Strength-Based. Employees believe that their personal strengths are utilized, nurtured, and supported.
- Open Communication. Employees feel they have the freedom to contribute ideas and alternate views.
- Knowledge Access. Employees feel empowered if they have access to data and information.
- Encouragement. Employees feel that they are recognized and encouraged.
- Clarity. Employees understand the direction their team and organization is headed. The mission, goals, and strategies are clearly articulated and inculcated.
- Learning. Employees should feel that they are learning and developing. They should have access to new training, workshops, mentoring, coaching, and presentations.
- Relationships. Employees work better when they feel they have quality, supportive, and energizing relationships with fellow workers.
- Fairness. Employees must feel that their performance is assessed fairly following a set of standards that are evenly applied.
- Contribution. Employees must feel that they are making a contribution to the team and that they are justly recognized for their contributions.
- Culture Awareness. Employees should feel that a positive work environment is important; that everyone must accept their responsibility to be engaged and to encourage others to stay engaged.