Organizational Culture Sets Focus

 Fort Myers New-Press  November 2011:  By Yvonne Ayala McClellan

For a business, organizational culture is like the lighthouse in the distance.

Many Southwest Florida businesses are thriving and giving their company direction by creating organizational culture.

"It's what makes all of the decisions that get made coherent," said Charles Ingram, CEO of Veritas Employers Services in Bonita Springs.

Ingram urged more professionals to work on cultures at the Human Resources Management Association of Southwest Florida luncheon at Cypress Lake Country Club in Fort Myers on Wednesday.

He told the group of about 60 that there isn't one right way to develop business culture and that each organization finds its own way.

Ingram said Fort Myers-based Johnson Engineering has employee stock options available as an incentive to positive performance within the organization and other national companies such as Southwest Airlines cross-train all employees so they can step in and help in other areas when there's a greater need, such as a baggage clerk helping to check in customers for a flight when the waiting line is backed up.

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