Patrick Mollet on workplace culture, new work and employer branding in the Triple M podcast

Patrick Mollet, Consultant at Great Place To Work, is a guest on Jochen Witt's latest Triple M podcast. Together they discuss the benefits of excellent workplace culture in employer branding, the impact of workplace culture on digital transformation and the complex forms of new work and new ways of working.

Evidence-based measurement tools for workplace culture

The podcast also discusses how Great Place To Work measures the workplace culture of organizations, because for Witte, workplace culture is something very vague. But Mollet counters: "Precisely because workplace culture is something very vague, we use evidence-based tools to measure it. On the one hand, there is the survey of all employees, the Trust Index. This is a questionnaire with 58 questions that allows us to obtain quantified feedback from employees - and thus develop measures that are based on data. On the other hand, we obtain the management's perspective with the culture audit. In it, the organization gives us feedback on its HR guidelines and processes."

Digital transformation needs a corresponding workplace culture

Mollet explains the importance of workplace culture in the digital transformation with the following statement: "With the digital transformation, communication, for example with Slack or MS Teams, is also changing a great deal. However, without a culture of trust, these tools are of little use, as employees are not guaranteed to discuss topics where everything is transparent. That's why you have to work on the culture first - in order to exploit the full potential of digital transformation in a trust-based workplace culture."