Wesley Bull is a Contributing Writer for Security magazine and is the CEO of Sentinel Resource Group, LLC, a protection risk management consulting and solutions firm. Prior to leading SRG, his professional experience includes operational roles in law enforcement, public safety, special task force assignments within the US intelligence community and lastly serving as the chief security executive (CSO/CISM/FSO) for a private wealth management firm and global technology company.
Corporate culture has been the source of vigorous discussion and debate in leadership circles for decades. Despite the persistence of this discourse, we continue to struggle with a working definition of “corporate culture.” A recent article in Harvard Business Review offered that “cultural norms define what is encouraged, discouraged, accepted, or rejected within a group.” How might the cultural norms in an organization encourage an environment ripe for workplace violence?
