Sample Press Release #8 of Kathleen Madrid del Rosario Manuel 1.27 PM 08/08/2022 Aligning company culture with workplace goals, transparency to gain trust and saying good words like thank you will create a good office environment and culture and keep the employees in the company. Source: https://bestmoneymoves.com/blog/2017/12/26/10-easy-ways-to-improve-your-office-culture/. ________________________ Improving office culture to keep employees in your company Office culture, also known as workplace culture, or company culture, is the identity of your company or organization, according to www.bettsrecruiting.com. Office culture, they continue, is the personality of your company or organization and includes your mission, vision, beliefs, values and traditions. Culture is also made up of the behavior, both the management and the employees, of the company or organization. Company culture includes perceptions of those working in the company or organization and those viewing it from the outside. Company culture, a toxic one, contributes to a high employee turnover. There are ways to create a good office or company culture to keep employees and to create happy and productive employees. Bestmoneymoves.com lists 10 ways to improve company culture. One of the ways is to align company culture with company goals. When management has defined company goals, aligning the company culture to it makes for productive employees. Some company culture practices include casual Fridays, or sales competitions or having teams that work toward company expansion. Talking with the employees and sharing company goals is a positive step to improving company culture. Helping your team be on the same page will improve company culture. Management must keep employee mission, or day-to-day tasks, fit to the company mission. Employees will feel more productive if they know what they are doing is in line with the company mission. Productive employees are happy employees and the general environment will be good office culture. Other ways to improve company culture include employing transparency to improve trust and balance in the workplace, learning to say the good words “Thank you” will make employees feel they are values and respected and acknowledging that employees have a life outside of the workplace. More ways to improve company culture include assisting in employees financial fitness goals to help them with their finances, having employee feedback like quarterly reviews helps keep morale high and Acknowledging and treating staff well like impromptu catered meals, regular individual acknowledgements even personalized birthday gifts show employees they are valued and appreciated. Constant improvements to the office culture will ensure that employees are productive, like doing their jobs and these are factors that will make them stay in their jobs. See the article on office culture and ways to improve it at https://bestmoneymoves.com/blog/2017/12/26/10-easy-ways-to-improve-your-office-culture/.