Organisational culture is increasingly a recognised as competitive differentiator for leading companies. Yet in the current business climate, leaders are often forced to find ways to balance investment in talent, motivation and employee engagement against the pressure to ruthlessly prioritise initiatives and reduce costs.

Affordances and Rituals can shape the working environment in ways that make us love our job, creating a productive workplace and making our work more meaningful.

We previously introduced the ideas of affordances to design a working environment that makes it easy for employees to be productive and be engaged. We will now look at brand rituals and how they make the brand meaningful by shaping the organisational culture that people buy into and believe in as employees and customers because it makes a difference to them as human beings.