How Search Partners Are Reinforcing Organizational Culture
How employees play a king’s role in
building a workplace culture
The culture of an organization is highly perceived by
the conduct of people. It is apparent in mutual interactions and behavior,
leadership style, responses to the external ecosystem and its surroundings. If
all these are in line with a shared set of beliefs and values, the organization
would perpetuate a strong culture.
It can’t be denied that an effective culture is a
source of achieving organizational goals and maintaining a competitive
advantage, and hence driving business success and engagement.
But the throne is always with the monarch!
The leaders of an organization are role models and
custodians of the culture and if the leaders fail to live and embrace the
values through their behaviour the culture is most likely to become
dysfunctional, which may turn into bigger issues that are hard to turn around.
Cherry picking is the key to a happy
kingdom
The emphasis on culture fitment in candidate selection
plays a pivotal role today, especially at leadership levels, as their
comportment trickles down and across the entire organization.
The realm's confidant!
The Executive Search partners play a collegial role in protecting the culture of the client organization by ensuring that the talent that is on-boarded, aligns, upholds, propagates, and strengthens the organization’s values. It has, therefore, become increasingly important for executive search firms to design interview and assessment styles that would uncover the "who" of a candidate, that defines their innate characteristics and can determine their leadership styles, organic alignment, and adaptability. It may also help search consultants to study the values of a candidate’s past companies and request them to transpire different cases on how they upheld the core values in situations of growth and crisis as this will determine how successfully the candidate can manage culture in alignment with the business goals in their future roles.
Principal, Athena Executive Search & Consulting
