According to experts, there are only four types of rituals: calendar, transition, crisis and magic.Rituals often have at work.Almost any corporate ritual perfectly fits into this typology.
Calendar rituals - most immutable because of its binding to specific dates.From formal: it is the celebration of the anniversary of foundation of the company, the New Year corporate parties, birthday celebrations chief.From informal: drinking with colleagues for the same reasons, but it is absolutely voluntary.
Transitional rituals - heralded the transition of a man in a different quality, a change of status.Often accompanied by a test, in which a person has to prove its compliance with the new status.
in corporate culture to transition rituals include the interview procedure, where check not only the knowledge of the applicant, but also on the strength of his experience.This is especially true for the so-called shock interview.If the applicant honorably endure questions about his personal life, and the polygraph test will not fall at the same time with a broken chair (which is one of the attributes of the shock of the interview), the initiation should be considered successfully completed.
transition to formal rituals include performance of the anthem of the company and even the celebration via magnetic cards or journal entries to appear for work.In this way employees are aware that the status of free people moving to the status of employees.Sometimes the transition rituals have to send just moving within the company: in the St. Petersburg company "Kartinform" going to the office of the chief, should have put on one's shoes in special slippers.
Magic rituals - the oldest and most tenacious.
corporate culture magical hue acquire transitional rituals start of the day.Especially in companies specializing in network marketing.
For example, according to one anonymous member of the ritual action, the working day in their company started with a "circle of Thanksgiving" when employees drove a magical dance.
Crisis ritual s .According to the doctor of historical sciences, professor of the Department of Ethnology of the European University in St. Petersburg Albert Bayburina ritual - "the most effective and the only way a person experiences in life critical situations."Crisis ritual of a country - it is an appeal to the heads of the people.
Across individual company - an appeal to the heads of its staff to tighten their belts, to work overtime to give up vacation or ... voluntarily resign.This includes brainstorming, preferably with the involvement of crisis management, as well as the already mentioned training staff.
Elena Mulyarova
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