8.The role of cultural adaptation in Talent sourcing

The role of cultural adaptation in Talent sourcing

The overall accomplishment of a visionary can be accomplished only with a team of handpicked skilled workers. The demand and supply of market can be taken into the first priority for the economic growth of the enterprise, no doubt. At the same time the exact implication of idea must be well understood within the entire team-every Jack and Jill within the system-for the desired output. The organization culture is the trunk of the business tree which is originated from the vision of an individual/team/or a cluster who founded it at the very beginning. The result and profit can be achieved with a group of skilled workforce but if they don’t share the vision in common then, it lacks the best fruits. By understanding the core of a founder’s idea an employees can place themselves in a position where they are fit in precise in such way that the exploitation and up gradation of their talent with respect to upcoming challenges will happen. It created a strong bond between the organizational structure and manpower with a great value in each phase of growth. The emotional , social and financial support from the workplace will always keeps the employee well balanced in track and ensure a family like comfort even if they didn’t experienced from it personal life. The wrap of comfort will open up a horizon and depth of opportunities where they can return to the surface with a handful of gems in each dive assured. The family tree will grow and become a forest if maintained well with necessary expansions in time line.

The organizational culture can be generally classified into two; “the declined clan” and “the rising clan”.

1. The Clan of Godfather’s or the Declined Clan

The declined clan of culture is old-school method which doesn’t bother about the updates demand by the time since they have already left with a sound income to support. It can be a traditional family business, a limited market oriented business which runs focusing more on a public interest as a whole, or a NGO and Government run business where the market expansion doesn’t even a matter. If we forget for some reason, a few exceptions only will be there among these types of business clan. The interesting thing is that at some point even they can pop-out themselves by undergoing modifications like technological integration, ideological change or planting it into a new ambiance where there is a want of market demand is occurred relatively in splendid. This type of organizations usually run by strong values or moral conduct closely related with the founder’s vision hesitate or rejects almost all the time leaving least possibilities for any calls demanding for a revolutionary step. It doesn’t mean that their contribution will not be generous or valuable but almost all of the outputs are delivered and processed through a set of traditional steps and with signature quality too. Any sudden changes within any part of the system may seriously-very seriously affect their outcome with long term effect and that’s why the updating of their policy consumes time, experience, skill, creativity, and focus in large quanta relative to their counterparts. They are more aligned to society than traditional market and have played a remarkable role of mentors and budding centre for “the rising clan” during the course of time, so they are Godfathers rather than explorers in human history.

These are also called as “Hierarchical/Traditional type of organization culture”. There are also different types of classifications are there based on the strategies of business like Sales, safety, support, innovation, development, commitment, social output, technological background etc.

2. The Clan of Explorer’s or the rising clan

The most innovative and adventurous types of organizations which equally value the social factor but focused more towards their market with flexibility are lies under this category. They usually undergo renovations as per market demands in short intervals and will leave a wide range of flexible operational space inside the structure if they can be exploited into its peak. As a result the organization will maintain its youth and aesthetics in all weather, splendid with young talents and hiring will be focused on skills rather than traditional certification criteria. Due to the closed watch approach to market the output will be large in quantity with optimum quality rather than signature one. The production design will subject to market risk and demand and supply and also changes with time to time. This is the basic difference between the two.

The first ‘signature product’ design structure will offer lexical cognates while the latter’s flexible design offers expedient outputs aligned in strategically sales. Optimum output in optimum time tile through milestone oriented production integrated with the most advanced technology is the style perceived in this method. The wide range of outputs within short interval which benevolent the market to compare with their counterparts is another outstanding specialty. This type of business entities so can attract a large range of customers too. Design of such a market strategy encourage in the budding of new talents eventually but will survive if and only if they can make their move with aped and accuracy. Availability of enhanced features without a considerable extra expenditure demands continuous monitor and update as per market changes. Inclusiveness or pluralism is another best outcome we can find within this style of business. You can find a sewing needle to the most updated version of artificial intelligence integrated under an umbrella because there is always a want of new customers for the new products. This in turn saves time of the chooser under a reliable brand of their convenience.

The free global market system is an essential factor for the growth of this system which offers one or another choice to make their ground safely. New collaborations and inclusions and undertakings will occur gradually which supports the wealth creation of nations very easily. The government interventions must be lowered leaving a space for overall control in case to case for smooth functioning and any malpractices of concentration power will eventually results in concentration of very huge amount of wealth that can even give birth to an autocracy by slicing the wings of the entrepreneurs. The decentralization of power and control will be the best method to ensure the transparency and balance in financial flow with fair deals.

Most of the product design strategies regardless of the nature- whether the out is a commodity or service- requires a touch of creativity. So while you are selecting an individual for a rising clan makes sure that the multi talents can be tapped out of them if they are really genius. The old school guys requires a serious alteration to make them fit for the areas of team work, open discussion of ideas , adapting new standards and following the contemporary styles. They are trained for performing under a roof where theirs is less or no distractions and follow same standards from the very beginning. So it will be a painful process for them while sharing their ideas or workspace with someone relatively from strange background. The challenges raised within a team will be remarked as serious outspoken remarks if the team leader is from an orthodox work culture , similarly an innovative idea can be tarnished as an act of challenging morality if a team of orthodox lead by an updated. If the internal communication is not monitored until all of them are able to catch the same vibe, then the result will be disastrous. It is advisable to mingle them with different types as much as lower in number and change the team in such a way that don’t not allow them to settle with a team of comfort during probation or training period. Once they succeed in adapting the change and ready to move with the vibe then it will be comparatively easier to control them. The psychological stress during the ‘painful-adaptation’ can be lowered with the presence of in house trainers, mentors or veteran professional if addressed in time.

Some of the major issues behind a low performance from a highly talented person and their most common solutions compared below for your reference;

Table 1 Grand Father in Explorer’s team

Table 2. Explorer inside a Declined Clan