When Small becomes Big

Organizations aren’t born big- neither do they come attached with an expected accoutrement of defined policies and systems. They are born from an idea to incubate the fledgling thought into an independent and capable entity. And the journey doesn’t stop here. It then becomes a pursuit of growing from small to big and then big to bigger.

How do humans adapt to the firm’s need for growth, and how do they bring their own pace in equilibrium with that of the organization’s?

A clutch of employees make up a firm in its initial days, all part of tacitly creating and maintaining a work culture that all conform to and contribute to. And it’s easier to do that when there are just a handful of them. In a compact organization, employees exercise their social as well as hierarchical influence to determine culture, work ethics and ethos. The sum total of this influence is greater than the whole that the organization itself would exert.

However, when an organization starts to spread its wings, the culture undergoes a change as well. It braces for impact from new ideologies and ways of functioning from the plethora of new employees or new processes inducted. Somewhere, the enduring culture that earlier defined the firm and its people gets mooted and so do the emotive qualities of association with the firm. The firm is no longer a cohesively tight knit version of a social family; rather, the ties are stretched to accommodate more claims to the same social structure and the family makes way for a larger, loosely bound social network. Culture then becomes a melting pot of collective congruity.

The urge to seize every opportunity to expand is understandable, but in your quest to surge ahead, are you taking your employees along with you? Are you sharing your vision, your goals with them to the extent that they fully understand your approach to reach them?

We at Positive Moves help you understand and pre-empt human resource needs by deciphering your human resource dynamics and the processes under which they operate in your firm. Drawing support from our in-depth market understanding of various industries as well as from our highly accomplished team, Positive Moves ensures that your quest for talent culminates with us. Executive Search for us, is not just about headhunting to find appropriate people, it is also about identifying the right talent from a cultural context. It is our endeavour to ensure that this becomes a long-term association for both the employee and the employer.

With two decades of unparalleled experience in the field of Executive Search, Positive Moves has built its strength around exceptional client management and a strong Value Added platform.