How to Hire to Maintain a Good Company Culture

Your company culture is made up of environment in which your employees work, your organisation’s mission, values, ethics and expectations of your employees. Company culture is the personality of your business, it can really be make or break to your whole employee experience. Depending on the type of business you run it will have an impact to the type of environment you have. Company culture can be behind company retention, productivity and motivation of your employees so it is incredibly important to understand what your culture is.

Interviews

Maintaining a good culture can be difficult, so you must take control right from hire. Once you have determined your company culture you should look at who you hire. What type of person would suit your working environment and who will mesh well with your team? One bad hire can impact your business in a negative way. Therefore, you must incorporate this into your hiring process. By getting the manager who is responsible for hiring on board with cultural hiring they can then embed questions surrounding company culture and values into their interviews. This will give insight into what the candidate is looking for in a workplace and if your workplace works well for them.

Temporary to permanent employment 

It isn’t always clear how an employee is going to perform in the workplace, so you may want to consider hiring a temporary to permanent employee. You will be able to judge if they fit in to your culture before committing to taking them on. You can’t always judge someone from their interview as some candidates may perform better than others at interview stage. You also may not be able to see the type of attitude a candidate has towards work straight away and because a bad attitude to work can disrupt your culture and therefore your business, you should look into different solutions which work best for you. When there is a conflict in your culture it could result in negativity amongst the whole business or team and therefore have a huge impact on productivity and work ethic in general.

Diversity

Although you do want to hire for culture, there is a difference between hiring for culture and only hiring one type of persona. Do not fall into the trap of sacrificing diversity for team fit. Look at values and ideals to an extent but focusing on this too much can lead to limits in creativity and lack of diversity which could potentially be dangerous for your business. Find a balance and hire for fit but also diversity. This can create a more engaging environment for employees of different backgrounds, identities and demographics. It can also have a huge benefit on your culture.