Editor's Note

We all undergo stress of some kind in our workplace. Deadlines, pressures, and meeting targets - are simply unavoidable. Yet despite all these challenges, you still feel like being at work – don’t you? You look forward to going to the office and enjoy most things about your job - especially if you have a great culture. A culture that is designed to take out that stress element in you. This is precisely why culture matters.

Themed edition: Whitepaper - Employee Culture: What works? What doesn’t?

A great culture tells a lot about an organization. One of the dominant strategic tools in business today, culture frequently shapes the identity of an organization. It is dynamic, changing and keeps on evolving with time. Culture also plays a vital role in an organization’s goals and is frequently a determining factor to a company’s success or failure.

Themed edition: Culture Management: Why we should be focusing on it

If you’re a building a company, your work isn’t complete once you hire employees, establish a product or a service, acquire an office, and maybe even make some revenue. Instead, building a company is an ongoing process, and it is a deeply collaborative task. The same is true with company culture.

Themed edition: Case Study By CULTUREiQ: Nando’s Peri-Peri

Nando’s is a global restaurant chain known for its PERi-PERi chicken, marinated for 24 hours, flame-grilled to perfection, and basted to the customer’s preferred flavor and spice. Nando's Peri-Peri has a growing employee base, distributed amongst multiple restaurant locations. They needed a scalable solution to not only stay in touch with employee sentiment, but also to objectively measure where they are and to serve as an indicator for how they should invest additional time and resources to positively impact culture.

Themed edition Article - Top Tips For Building A Great Culture

Having a great company culture is a much sought after goal for organizations. Many members of today’s workforce consider company culture extremely important, and many employees view culture as, or even more important, than salary and benefits. If you want engaged employees who contribute to organizational success, a healthy organizational culture is mandatory.

Themed edition: Employee Culture Vendors’ List

Looking for companies that can help you strengthen your company culture? Below is a list of companies to help in your search. Click on the link to their listing in HR.com’s Buyer’s Guide for more information.

Building A Culture Of Social Recognition

With the holiday season upon us, it is a great reminder for HR leaders to infuse humanity into the workplace. Gratitude in the workplace is a core component of the employee experience because it validates employees and the work they do, helping them ultimately perform more meaningful work.

Recognition and Engagement December 2016 Advertisers

Working With Zombies: 3 surefire ways to awaken the working dead

Several years ago, I got wrapped up in the TV Show AMC called “The Walking Dead.” For those of you who have not seen it, the show is about the world being taken over by zombies who savagely bite living people and transform them into fellow zombies.While doing keynote speeches at national and international conferences, I teach my audiences about the largest category of workers, which are people who are neither engaged nor disengaged. Essentially, this inspired me to call these people “The Working Dead.”

The Bored At Work Epidemic: New study reveals how to keep employees engaged

HR today is about much more than compensation and benefits. It has evolved to be the engine behind “employee success” that nurtures talent and makes strategic data driven decisions about relevant employee training, work from home policies, office culture, and competitive perks, among other things.