The Impact of Covid-19 on Company Culture

The Impact of Covid-19 on Company Culture

🔥NEW There is a social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as it requires social distancing and security. Employees are often required to work from home. And when they have meetings, like with other company stakeholders (customers, suppliers) they are supposed to use video conference calls. But shifting from face-to-face to virtual meetings will change the way we interact with one another. This change can affect the organizational culture that has been defined and shaped by the organization.
We need ways to ensure the organizational culture is maintained or is not affected too much by this situation. Here are some ideas:

1. WALK YOUR TALK (behavior in accordance with organizational culture)
   Make sure that employee can see your culture and values ​​in decisions made at all levels.
2. CREATE A NEW TRADITION
   Because every culture has a tradition, it is necessary to form a new take of organizational culture traditions to keep this tradition alive.
3. FIND NEW WAYS TO COMMUNICATE
   A multi-channel approach to communication is essential to ensure that employees have the information they need clearly and timely. Words and actions matter, so make sure your communication is in tune with your culture and values.
4. BUILD COMMUNITIES
   Create new, and more, ways for employees to connect and build communities around common interests in ways that reinforce and enhance your culture. Organizations can encourage and support various employee resource groups, creating internal messaging channels around shared interests related to work and non-work.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way and where we work and challenges us to see organizational culture through a different lens. With new traditions and new ways of communication to strengthen our community we can ensure the organizational culture remains alive.
Source: Marszalek J. 2020. "Culture Moves Out Of The Office". Forbes. July 2020.

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		1 Philippe Guenet Coach, United Kingdom
	Covid Promotes Self-managing Teams and Agile I have seen organisations keeping things going, with the leadership spending considerable time check... Sign up

		1 John Henry Project Manager, United States
	Embrace the New Reality you Find Yourself In Maybe the best strategy is to recognize the new reality, and adjust your culture to reflect it. Man... Sign up

		3 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	New Reality: Temporary or Permanent A major problem with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on company culture etc. is that nobody know... Sign up

		0 John Henry Project Manager, United States
	Temporary, or Permanent While I expect that this new reality is both temporary and permanent, that matters less than how we ... Sign up

		1 Gandhi Heryanto Management Consultant, Indonesia
	New Reality versus Company Culture Whether the company culture will change over time in the absence of physical interaction will depend... Sign up

		1 John Henry Project Manager, United States
	The Ability to Change is #1 in Corporate Culture A company culture needs to reflect everything the company values, its way of working, and the strate... Sign up

		2 Doaa Saayed Professor, Lebanon
	Covid and Company Culture The virtual methods are not successful all the time, especially if there is connection problem or he... Sign up

		0 Graham Williams Management Consultant, South Africa
	New Reality: Temporary or Permanent There has been a rush to the new abnormal and unsocial distancing (perhaps promoted by vested intere... Sign up

		1 Philippe Guenet Coach, United Kingdom
	COVID Disruption to Traditional Firms COVID times are exacerbating the challenge and accelerating the needed digital transition. For examp... Sign up

		1 Waheed Majekodunmi Management Consultant, Nigeria
	The ICT Infrastructure Has to be Embedded in the Company Culture One fundamental aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic is the emergence / acceleration of telecommuting ... Sign up

		2 Gregory Johnson Coach, United States
	Impact of Corona on Organization Culture @Jaap de Jonge: This is an interesting dialogue for me in my business. I hear, as most of you do too... Sign up

		0 Gandhi Heryanto Management Consultant, Indonesia
	Work no Longer Has to be Performed at the Office We might say that Covid-19 pandemic changed a major assumption of work culture, namely that work has... Sign up

		1 Gregory Johnson Coach, United States
	Organization Impact of COVID in Production and the Hybrid Construct It's interesting to read and hear the numerous efforts to point out benefits to the "new" environmen... Sign up

		0 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Cultural Change Due to COVID in Production Environments? @Gregory Johnson: I agree that application of remote working or even the hybrid model is not the fir... Sign up

		0 Gregory Johnson Coach, United States
	Additional Production Operations Adjustments @Jaap de Jonge: I don't have any answers but a couple of thoughts. Years ago an effort to change ef... Sign up