I have been consulting with an organization where the new senior management wants to change their workplace culture. What does this mean - they really want to instill, motivate and inspire certain workplace values in their daily dealing with each other. They want their employees to treat each other with respect, support and honesty. Yet their long term senior management does everything possible to undercut these values - like publicly humiliating and belittling the work of employees. 

Can they reach top productivity and inter-team performance this way? While we talk about company mission and vision, that kind of talk is at the 30,000 feet level. How is that operationalized in the day to day structure, functioning and processes at your workplace? Have you ever explored what the values of your staff and leaders are and what they want them to be? 

My experience is that the younger worker generations often embrace values and belittle that their bosses never listen. For example, 78% of employees leave because of their bosses and 83% of bullies at workplaces are bosses. Have you ever integrated your workplace values into your hiring process to making sure that the core values of your new recruit match those core values of his new team? If not, this divide is going to cause infighting and bad feelings within the group. Another client of mine has their posted value of Workplace Civility all around their workplace - but when we did a workshop on workplace civility, none of the participants felt that their managers treated them with civility.