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Find the Right Fit for Your Company

Finding employees who are a perfect match for your corporate culture is not always a straightforward process. Because it can be difficult to properly assess an applicant’s cultural fit during the interview process, it’s important to ask targeted questions that can help bring such information to light. Moreover, it’s important that you analyze and assess your company’s current culture in a way that allows you to find the perfect match.

Analyzing Your Current Company Culture

There are a number of methods you can use in order to assess the current culture of your company. For starters, try to take an impartial stance when viewing employee-to-employee interaction. Try to set your managerial disposition aside and analyze their individual relationships. Among other things, this will help you distinguish between team-oriented employees and those who crave independence. If your current workforce tends to lean one way or the other, you’ll want to seek out like-minded job seekers in order to fill any holes in your roster.

Another way to help uncover your organizational culture is to engage in a “culture walk.” This literally involves a walking tour of your facilities, which allows you to analyze such things as office or workspace allocation, usage of bulletin boards or other motivational materials and more. All of this information can be collated with the other data you’ve obtained in order to make an informed decision.

Locating Employees with a Similar Culture

It’s a well-known fact that employees who share a similar culture with their organization tend to make better workers in general. In fact, according to a 2005 research paper by Kristof-Brown, employees who fit in with the culture of their co-workers and managers are more satisfied with their jobs, are able to identify better with their company’s mission and goals and demonstrate superior job performance when compared to those with a different culture. Moreover, those who show a great cultural fit with their organization also experience lower turnover rates.

With that in mind, it’s easy to see why employers are constantly seeking out employees who match with their corporate or organizational culture. This is exactly why many employers now use some amount of pre-employment screening in order to gain a better understanding of the applicant’s own culture. Simply asking a job applicant about their views on teamwork and workplace independence can go a long way in determining whether or not they will fit with your company’s current culture.

A similar screening process can be used during the course of employment, as well. Especially useful before a promotion or raise, a cultural screening in this manner can help you understand how an employee’s culture has been affected since their pre-employment interview. More importantly, discovering such information can help you form a strategy for pushing your company’s culture toward one side or another.

Finally, asking questions about an individual’s personal culture and work ethic during an exit interview can also help you to steer your company’s culture in the future. Keep in mind that it can be difficult for some employees to put such information into words, so asking direct questions that require more than a one-word answer is the best way to go about the process.

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