Hey all,
I am very interested in your vision about company cultures.
What means a good company culture to you?
What does your company do for creating a good company culture?
How important is a good company culture for you?
Cheers,
Robb
Well, just one comment…
When you work for a larger company, team culture is more important than company culture. You can’t make a giant monolithic culture in a larger company, nor should you try. If you go to a mall that has a food court, you want a bunch of good options. What you don’t want is the same good option duplicated a dozen times.
To add to btribble, culture cannot be taught or enforced. The last company I was at tried to jam it down our throats and everything they tried never stuck. Just like a regional culture, it evolves organically without any sort of control. It’s an important part of the workplace and some folks will leave or stay based soley(sp?) on the culture.
What does a company do for creating a good culture? Don’t force anything on its employees and allow some freedoms in the office.
What does it mean? no idea. A producer probably coined the phrase 
Its not something to build or tend to, it just happens for better or worse.
I’ll just leave this here…
Beware people that think they have the solutions to your questions, changing company culture is a difficult issue. Certainly successful company cultures exist, and some companies with them try to figure out what it means (at that company) and how to keep it (at that company). But by and large, if you’re not happy with your company’s culture, your best bet is to leave for a company you’re more compatible with.
I agree with Rob. Company culture is very important, especially when it comes to crunch-time and working in close quarters for long hours. Also, every studio has it’s own unique culture. In large companies like EA, Ubisoft, and Activision, the culture will differ greatly from studio to studio, and sometimes even within each studio, from team to team. I would also say that location and team size has a lot to do with it.
Definitely seek out a culture that is a good fit for you, which may not the same that is a fit for your friends.
For getting the desired company results, it is really important for concentrating on team culture instead of company culture. It is required for every person to do the job smartly, efficiently and confidently for pulling the business upwards.
At the end of the day, isn’t the culture of any group pretty variable?
The team at my workplace has been transitioning from a collection of individuals to a co-operative group since I joined. But if certain people moved on they’d take a lot of that group-mindedness with them and the culture would shift again.
a lot of it does come down to the people in the room: the same HR manual can be twisted into lots of different shapes by different groups of folks. Companies that really care about culture may produce a lot of verbiage - but I’d bet that 90% of the practicalities come down to picking the kind of people for the environment you’re trying to build. I’ve certainly seen teams that said all the rght thing but could never produce positive cultures because they were made up of people who didn’t fit the template that the managers were imagining.
Company culture is highly important for the growth of the employees within…and i guess it should be practiced in a good manner in every single organization…