Corporate Culture Change and Setting-up Corporate Structures * Incedo Group

Corporate Culture Change and Setting-up Corporate Structures

April 2, 2013
, 1:18 am
, Business

One of the most important steps in setting up your business is creating a corporate structure. There are certain misconceptions as to what a corporate structure really is. Some mistake it for tax structures and all sorts of other legal stuff, but a corporate structure is much simpler than that. It’s very important to an organization. With the right corporate culture change, you and your business partners will have a better chance of making a good profit.

Setting up a corporate structure should be done early on during business set-up. This will help give a clearer direction to the business. By creating this structure, you will have an idea of the positions available and the specific skills needed for hiring. It gives you and your business partners a realistic picture of the manpower you need to run the business efficiently.

After creating a corporate structure, it’s now time to develop job descriptions for each position. This is very critical during the hiring process. It will also serve as guides to employees to help them better grasp their role in the organization.

If you already have your business in place but lack the right organizational structure, then it’s about time to enforce some corporate culture change. You may have to start creating your corporate structure from scratch, but don’t be discouraged. Breaking negative work cultures may be hard, but it will help you correct mistakes and inefficiencies in the system and even in your employees. A good first step is getting job positions and structures in place. This will provide the guidance each employee needs to understand his own role in the bigger vision of the organization.

As a manager or business owner, you have the right to fire people, or demote people you see fit. However, this will not necessarily correct wrong cultures in the office. To set everyone on the right direction once and for all, create a solid corporate structure and start from there. Now everyone will be reminded of their roles and what is expected of them. This may be a good first step to change. Remind each employee that their work contributes to the bigger picture and that no matter how seemingly unnoticed their labor is, the company benefits greatly from them. Show them a visual representation of the corporate structure, showing their spot in the defined structure; this helps persuade employees that their role is valuable.

There is no question that developing a corporate structure and enforcing corporate culture change comes hand in hand. When trying to enforce certain changes it’s always good to go back to the basic essentials. Start making changes from the bottom; this will help you target the root cause of inefficiencies and employee problems. In most cases negative work cultures, are a result of ineffective systems and structures.