Corporate Culture
Categories: Company Management
The culmination of all those guest speakers and trust falls. The end result of papering the office with eye-roll inducing affirmational phrases.
Maybe for your company, the operative sentiment is something along the lines of "the customer is always right." Or maybe it's something like "coffee's for closers." Either way, a corporate culture refers to the general vibe a company tries to maintain, or its basic values (beyond trying to make money). In short, it represents the way a corporation goes about its business.
Maybe it's a button-down firm where everyone speaks in low tones and the office gleams of polished wood and glass doors. Maybe you work out of your CEO's basement and everyone brings their pets to work. Maybe you'll throw out a full batch of expensive product because one item has a defect. Maybe you'll try to sell your expired inventory in some third-world country, just to get some return on the output.
All of this adds up to an organization's corporate culture.