Blog on HR’s Role in Creating a Positive Company Culture

1. HR’s Role in Creating a Positive Company Culture
In today’s fast moving business world, one thing that has retained its value is the impact of a
positive company culture. A company culture is an amalgamation of shared beliefs, values,
norms, and behavior of the company that defines the company and builds a sense of
belongingness in the company and its employees. The positive company culture not only
affects the employees but also the overall success of the businesses. So, a company that
adopts a positive culture always have an immense amount of support from its highly
motivated and engaged employees throughout the companies thick and thin phase.
This entire process of creating this positive company culture and enhancing this culture is
taken care by the most important department of the company i.e., Human Resource (HR)
department. In this blog we will explore how HR department creates and enhances the work
culture of the company leading to positive company culture.
1. Recruitment: Hiring the right person for the company that not only matches the
skillset for the required job but also aligns with the company’s values and beliefs is
the first step towards creating a positive company culture. HR should focus creating
an innovative interview system where they get to analyze the value and behavior
during the interview.
2. Onboarding: After onboarding the new employees, HR should set the tone of the
company in the initial days by creating a welcoming environment and helping the
new employees understand the company’s culture through introductory or
orientation sessions, meet and greet with old employees, etc.
3. Communication: HR department plays an important role in setting a clear and
transparent communication system within the company. HR can do this by
conducting workshops, seminars, or meeting to make everyone understand the
company’s values, beliefs, vision, and mission.
4. Employee Recognition and Rewards: A lot of employees change their jobs not for
better salary but for the value of their work. So, it is important for the HR
department to come up with some policy rewards and recognition of employee as
per the company’s culture.
5. Training of Employees: Thorough training workshop once in a quarter showcase the
employees that they are valued, and company is investing in this overall growth. So,
HR should conduct or plan such development workshops for the employees.
6. Conflict Resolution: Conflicts are a part of each and every kind of work culture but
how these conflicts are handled makes a lot of different in the overall working of a
company. HR plays a crucial role in resolving such conflicts in a way that aligns with
company’s belief and values and drives the decisions in a non-biased manner.

2. 7. Well-Being Programs: With the increase in mental health issues in individuals around
the world, company’s need to build an overall system to help their employees in
need of such services and take care of employee’s overall health by providing health
support facilities, conducting stress management workshops and seminars and just
by creating a supportive and understanding culture of the company.
8. Diversity: The times have changed when companies used to hire majority of
particular gender or religion-based individual. So, HR should promote the hiring of
people of diverse backgrounds to create an inclusive environment in the company
and welcome employees on an equal level giving them equal and fair treatment.
9. Performance Management: It is essential for a company to conduct employee
performance yearly, but HR can come up with a performance management system -
where employees not just get evaluated on their performance but gets monthly
feedback to improve their performance.
10. Feedback: Feedback can’t always be one way. HR can create a forum for employees
to give feedback to the company so company can also make required changes in the
system. This can be done through surveys and one on one discussions.
These are some of the ways that HR can undertake as per their company’s mission and vision
to enhance and maintain a positive company culture. HR is the only department that can
contribute towards the above-mentioned actions and make effective changes required for
the continuous improvement of the company’s culture. These engaged and motivated
employees are the strength of companies leading them to becoming a successful company.