
Following Mobile World Congress 2016, during which Samsung partnered with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, the mobile giant has been eagerly promoting is new Galaxy S7 smartphones and virtual reality headset, the Gear VR.
Given its deep-rooted focus on consumers, it stands to reason Samsung has come out to say that it wants to introduce a startup culture into the workplace. Indeed, it?s been found in a study from BrightHR that companies must think of today?s employees as consumers, given the changing attitudes towards career paths and workplace enjoyment. Of course, a startup by definition is a newly established business, so it sounds quite an outrageous ambition for a 1938-founded corporate firm with some 300,000 plus workers dotted around the world to posses. ?We aim to reform our internal culture, execute as quickly as a start-up company and push towards open communication and continuously innovate,? the firm said in a statement. Many startup entrepreneurs and leaders will tell you that a company culture has been fostered from the beginning ? so that?s going to mean a great deal of restructuring for the business. It?s not simply a case of creating new office environments, policies and so forth, but nurturing that culture ? especially when existing staff members will be in the habit of a rigid approach to work.Read more on company culture:
- Makers vs managers: Making people, not policy, central to your business success
- From poker chips to fish & chips: Why employers must step up and keep the workforce motivated
- Meet the five businesses you should never copy when it comes to company culture
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