What happens to an organization where those working for it act like college friends and not professional colleagues?
The first question you may want to ask would be - what's the difference?
Heck, there is a lot of difference. In fact, there are only differences.
Someone who is a professional will generally stay away from the following:
This becomes extremely dangerous if it happens in case of long-time loyalists in an organization who also happen to be a part of the management committee and run the organization's affairs.
College friends end up shaping the culture in the organization in such a manner that the general atmosphere becomes more like working for a "family" than a company!
Progressive, growth-oriented organizations should firmly believe in and establish a culture which allows its employees to act as professional colleagues rather than college friends.
Colleagues should share camaraderie and have good working relations.
However, a clear line has to be drawn so that the relations between professional colleagues does not degenerate into college friends.
The first question you may want to ask would be - what's the difference?
Heck, there is a lot of difference. In fact, there are only differences.
Someone who is a professional will generally stay away from the following:
- Go below a a certain level of decorum even if they meet the colleagues outside office
- Interact in a manner which is too informal and using unpolished language
- Watch funny videos with others in the office
- Crack certain types of jokes with others
- Spend the entire working day (almost) in small talk with others
- Share too many personal and trivial details with others
- Get drunk in office parties and talk non-sense with one another
- Go for lunch with the same set of people everyday
- Write negative and toxic emails
- Reach late to meetings
- Sit over emails for a long time
- Delay response to emails received from others
- Stay quiet on meeting invites received from others (no response)
- Play behind-the-back games
- Promote stooges and form coterie
- Play favorites and carry bias
- Side with loyalists and long time stooges
This becomes extremely dangerous if it happens in case of long-time loyalists in an organization who also happen to be a part of the management committee and run the organization's affairs.
College friends end up shaping the culture in the organization in such a manner that the general atmosphere becomes more like working for a "family" than a company!
Progressive, growth-oriented organizations should firmly believe in and establish a culture which allows its employees to act as professional colleagues rather than college friends.
Colleagues should share camaraderie and have good working relations.
However, a clear line has to be drawn so that the relations between professional colleagues does not degenerate into college friends.
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