Work culture

Work culture is the confluence of perceptions, emotions, and motivations that individuals experience as they react to and make sense of the events of their workday….

Believe me, it’s not the incentive system, not the personalities, and not the skill levels that form a creative culture.

If someone in the company reports a new idea on a given day or solves a complex problem, it can be counted as creativity.

When people have more positive perceptions of their organization, their peers, their managers, the kind of work that they’re doing, when they have more pleasant emotions like feeling happy, proud and they feel stronger intrinsic motivation, on those days they’re most likely to be more creative, productive, and committed to work, and they are likely to be better colleagues to the people around them.

When people have positive emotions on one day, they were more likely to have creative ideas that day. And not only that, they are more likely to have creative ideas the following day.

“We believe we can’t have happy customers, unless you have happy employees” — Tony Hsieh, Zappos

When a business vertical employees have higher levels of job satisfaction, and more positive perceptions of their managers, peers, and their jobs, at one point in time, that business vertical at a later point of time is more likely to have higher levels of performance, better solutions, customer loyalty, and greater employee retention.

Happy employees lead to better performance for companies.