C10.7.4.2 Benefits of a positive organisational culture
The benefits of a positive organisational culture are:
- Increased levels of compliance with rules and procedures
- Increased staff morale
- Reduced staff turnover
- Reduced staff complaints
- Reduced sickness, accident & environmental incident rates
- Reduced absenteeism
The factors required to achieve cultural change include:
- Learning through experience through monitoring and review
- A shared perception of risks
- Ownership of sustainability at every level of the organisation
- Senior management commitment
- Effective communication and consultation
- Standards of acceptable behaviour, implemented across the whole organisation
- Training for all employees, including management and specialists
- External factors such as the financial health of the organisation, the impact of the regulatory bodies and/or the economic climate
- A balance between sustainability and production/service goals