TheIKNPost.com — Scientists define a healthy organization as an organization whose culture, climate, and work practices are able to create an environment that supports employee health and safety as well as organizational effectiveness.
With a healthy organization, employees feel valued.
The realization of a healthy organization will increase job satisfaction, reduce absenteeism and employee turnover; improve job performance; also improves the physical, mental, spiritual and well-being of employees.
This is certainly positive for the company’s long-term financial performance.
A healthy organization has a number of characteristics.
First, openness and humility of its members, from top to bottom.
Arrogance will only kill learning and growth. Strength comes from the ability and willingness to learn from others.
Second namely, the development of a climate of accountability and personal accountability.
Denial, blaming each other and looking for scapegoats, and looking for obvious reasons worsen relationships and escalate conflicts.
Third characteristic A healthy organization is the courage to take risks, but of course calculated ones.
Brave taking risks important for recognizing and exploiting opportunities for growth and improvement.
On the other hand, taking risks blindly, excessively and without careful calculation becomes a threat to the organization.
Instead of taking advantage of opportunities, organizations may lose many of their resources, such as finances and employees. So, effective risk management is very important.
Fourth, doing things right is the hallmark of a healthy organization.
Organizations certainly don’t want to just achieve mediocre achievements but want to excel even though achieving this requires hard and smart work.
Healthy organizations are also able to resist the temptation to take shortcuts, which often arise.
Fifth, Healthy organizations are also able to be tolerant to a certain extent towards mistakes made by their members.
Those who make mistakes also want to learn from mistakes and shortcomings.
Easily punishing mistakes that can still be tolerated will kill creativity and discourage members (employees) from doing their best.
Sixth, integrity.
For a healthy organization, integrity is everything.
Integrity must not be sacrificed in any name, under any pretext. Consistency is also very important.
Dishonesty and inconsistency will definitely damage trust. Organizations and the relationships established by the people in them will develop positively if they are based on clarity, transparency, honesty and reliability.
Seventh, Another characteristic of a healthy organization: always trying to realize collaboration, integration and holistic thinking. Narrow and compartmentalized thinking will kill an organization.
Organization members actively work together to design ideas and best practices.
Organizations also seek to integrate the best people into collaborative teams. All of them are able to multiply the strength of the organization.
Eighth, A healthy organization is an organization that is able to survive even when facing difficult times.
The organization was neither affected nor intimidated. They are aware that the journey they take will not always be smooth but will encounter many stumbling blocks.
Ninth, Healthy organizations treat their employees, customers, and visitors with respect. They also pay attention to employees’ personal and family needs, encourage employees’ personal and professional development, expect continuous improvement, and always look for creative ways to meet customer needs. (**)
