Living through the management philosophy and company values
In our last company wide meeting, we had done survey on how we are living upto the management philosophy and company values that were decided when we started out this company 2 years back. The results show that to a large extent we are living upto them. Here it is:
One good conclusion i was able to make is that we are having "fun" at office while being "result oriented" at the same time. Also, many of us feel that thoughts and knowledge is being shared across the team, which shows that we are a learning organization, which we always wanted to be.
Looking at the numbers, it is clear that we have to work hard towards improving quality in processes and make them online as much as we can. After all, we are an ecommerce company and making processes online should become a core competence with us.
One funny thing, i see, is that we have few people who have rated "fun at office" as "living it" and an equal number who say "not at all". I am in a precarious situation and do not know what to do with them.
We specifically looked at "Accountability" as a cultural value, even though, it is not part of the core values. Many of us feel that we are not really made "accountable" for the deliverables and this is a dangerous issue and we have to address this immediately.
We looked at one more question - "the top 3 things which are stopping us from going to the next level of productivity or personal growth". I tried to categorize them as - Company related, Work related, Team related or Individual and with in Individual, i was tried to categorize as - Skills related, Knowledge related, Attitude related or Need related.
The summary of the issues which are affecting us are:
We as a team have to help each other overcome these issues and as management also, the above table help us focus on the needs of our team.
Finally, we discussed about the company vision - "To continuously Generate, Incubate, Manage and Realize Niche ecommerce opportunities through Customer Centric, Cost Effective, Agile, State of the art Technology and Processes." and i see that the awareness of it is really high among us and we have to keep this going. We have to, on a day to day basis, be able to connect what we do with what we are trying to achieve.
Thanks to everyone of you, who candidly expressed your opinion and helped us to understand each other and our company.