ALT-3 Understanding Corporate Culture why you Feel Stuck
Do you remember when you got the call to that one special job that you thought you wanted? They made you feel important and even asked your opinion in team meetings. Questions about how your part could make the company move forward. The ideas in your head were unlimited and management even tried a couple of your suggestions.
Then one day in your meeting the questions seem to elude you and no one of importance looks your way. Managers want suggestions,just not yours. The ideas of others in the team make jokes and even come up with much more intelligent answers than you. You scratch your head and ponder the thought of what are you doing wrong. Then you feel your value to the company was for naught. You feel stuck and you are on your way down that street of a dead end job.
Understanding corporate culture can be a long drawn out affair. You may not realize why this is so until many years of employment have passed. The first day of orientation will give you a good idea of how you are going to fit in within the company. When a company has been founded on hard work and work ethic. Value and a determination to get the job done type culture. You will have to be among the movers and shakers to advance in this type work environment. Understanding where and how you fit in may require that you work extended shifts or hours. This helps in preparing you for the type of work environment you may be introduced to later on but it will have little effect on how you feel isolated or stuck in your job.
It's easy to feel stuck in a dead end job and people end up working for years doing the same job day in and day out. It may seem repetitious and boring to some but if they pay you well for the job you do, it will not go unnoticed. You have to sell yourself in the work place every day. New ideas contribute well to how you work with others in your team. Your knowledge of your job will be instrumental when it comes to the understanding of a corporate culture. Large companies promote their very best employees and give them the leadership skills needed to enhance their career where many others do not. The job becomes stagnate and with no inspiration to get things done. You will come to feel stuck in your same old job. No successful company can have more chiefs than they do Indians. Nothing would get done if that is the case and it is not corporate culture to allow this to happen. When companies stop looking forward and stays in maintain mode for to long, you see this happen. Then when they (Managers) want new ideas, the think tank of the team seems to stagnate right along with the feeling of being stuck.
To understand corporate culture. You have to see the history of how the company was started. It could have been one brilliant person with a vision. The one person that surrounds themselves with people they trust and can count on during the rough times of a factory or office start up. Then the incorporating of employees come in to the picture. A close knit bunch that are working toward a common goal to be successful. Just like the running of a family house hold, corporate cultures are made.
When new employees become employed with the company. The company has already been established. If you were not there in the start up faze, you are considered an outsider to the team. When the company has had their leadership people in place for long periods of time. It is normal to feel stuck or looked over when it comes to promotions and you have to wait for the day to take your turn at the wheel. Dealing with these problems on a daily basis can have a negative effect on a person that is ambitious and ready to try new things to get to the top. One has to be careful when challenging the views of corporate cultures. You can find your career in a death spiral real fast, if you do not handle yourself in a professional manner.
Many careers have fallen to the wayside, just because of impatience on the employee part and how he views the corporate value and culture. Being blackballed or not considered a team player by management is the killer in these types of circumstances. The feeling of not having a voice when things of importance arise in the work place can leave you feeling cheated or not a part of the corporate culture theme. You feel stuck because you were not involved in the team process that makes corporations successful. The only consideration in a corporate culture is the individuals work values and to get past that ideal is to be innovative and smart.
