More On Underwater Currents
Another insight about organizational underwater currents:
The variation in how different people within the same organization perceive a certain issue is by itself an interesting finding.
You can learn a lot about the organizational culture by comparing the way different people live a certain aspect of the organization and react to it. Sometimes this variance is derived from the different personality each person has. But there are cases where this variance is a strong indication of a problem.
Managers sometimes have a completely different perception of the working environment and the way things are being done than their employees. This is a warning sign. It might suggest that the managers are not aware of how things work in the reality of their business. Under such conditions it is impossible to make correct decisions.
There might be different reasons for such a communication problem. This, of course, requires further investigation. But the important thing is that the only way to reveal such problems is by talking to people across the organization and listening carefully to what they have to say.
