Artifacts In The Workplace

Artifacts are the visible elements in the culture that include any tangible, evident or verbally identifiable elements in an organization. They are everything you would see, hear, and feel when you meet a new group with unfamiliar culture (Burkus, 2014). Artifacts can be the physical architecture of the environment, beautification of workplace, careful design, built-in space for movement (space, sound, and acoustics), by the way people speak and behave, and language that they used can assume that this is the first part of the artifact which is behavior. For example, selection of courteous language, office jokes and dress codes; explicit dress codes speak a lot about workplace culture which depends on the nature of the workplace, it is the first

Furthermore, technology, art, visible and audible behavior pattern constructed physical and social environment, and spoken language is visible but often not decipherable; what they do mean, how do they interpret or can be interpreted by analyzing central values for day-to-day operating (N.A). For example, cars emblems, Facebook logo, and inspirational talisman to internal stakeholder are all identifying the symbol of something, which is what we can see. For the companies whose brand is well known to the public or the companies with excellent services and products, the observable artifacts had played an important role for the company succession as the employees could feel sense of pride just by working with the company, which enhance the performance of the employees and create an inspiring work

An artifact is any memorable event or object that is created by any member of the company.” Workers in the company create artifacts and that represent the culture of the company. However, some have more responsibilities in creating the company’s image more than others (Causey, 2017). For leaders, they could make more impacts in changing the culture than any other workers which mean it is important to make sure that those leaders are clear and good individuals because, in the public eyes, the good CEO would show the company’s values of capability and precision (Causey, 2017). It should be noted that although the leader has a great responsibility in presenting the company’s artifacts, most of the artifacts were still created by the workers of the company and the habits will keep accumulating over time (Causey, 2017). For the start-up company, it is essential to hire right for they are the people who influence the culture of the company (Causey, 2017). Moreover, changing the culture for the new company could be achieved simply by taking a small number of artifacts from any employees to shift the culture. In contrast, it’s very difficult to change the culture of the old company as it needs an enormous effort to replace the old culture. Although the artifacts are visible, that does not mean it could be understood easily by everyone as the most significant point of