Office culture is a constituent
that is inevitable in our daily work life and has a great impact on our
productivity as well. There are many who are always interested in bullying other team mates / passing comments
knowingly or unknowingly / groupies’/ trying to take control of others life.
Such practices lead to an unhealthy work environment and impact the
productivity of the concern employees’, which in return affects the team work.
Is it done by the employees’ who
have less work / have too much of idle time OR wants to be in the good books of
boss OR possess a characteristic of
being politically correct OR
considering one superior? It’s really hard to believe that with such a competitive
market around, employees’ put in their time, energy in sturdily building such practices instead utilizing their time fruitfully. I believe people with the
feeling of ‘Being Superior’ cultivate such office culture. Superiority complex
is a psychological averting mechanism, which person conceal to hide his / her
inferiority. Thinking superiors to others, they overrule their own mistakes /
weaknesses.
Theory by Alfred Adler
A superiority
complex is a cover up for an inferiority complex. Adler’s theory was extracted
from his own life experiences.
People management needs to be
done extensively which will lead to shape the office culture in a more
effective way. Here in where the manager and HR has to team up as a ‘People Project Advocate’ OR ‘Employee Engagement’. I believe under
the umbrella of PPA / EE – team can have Organizational development
intervention, wherein employee can talk about himself / herself; can have face
to face to share their grievances / opinions and many more activities can be
conducted to enhance the employees’ skills; keeping them busy in their idle
times.
I understand with employees being
engaged in extracurricular activities beyond their daily course will help in
improvising the office environment and double the productivity of the team.