Workplace Conformity and Workplace Values: A Comparative Study of TCS and Infosys

Abstract

This study examines the difference between workplace values and workplace conformity at two IT giants, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys. Conformity is the act of aligning oneself with the group, and the bulk of employee activities in a company revolves around sustaining group conformity as a group habit. An organization's guiding beliefs and principles are its organizational values. They include openness, confrontation, trust, authenticity, proaction (taking the initiative, preplanning, preventative activity and evaluating alternative payoffs before acting), autonomy, collaboration, and experimentation. For the current study, TCS and Infosys employees provided 60 responses to a 4-point scale questionnaire based on the OCTAPACE profile and a 7-point scale questionnaire based on the normative influence scale. The result of the study highlights the workplace ideals having a significant difference with workplace conformity at both TCS and Infosys.