Changing Organization Cultures by Trice Beyer
Changing the structure of your organization is one of the most difficult tasks to be done. Culture of the organization is formed by interaction among the participants which takes many years. Culture of an organization is formed for a reason. Culture of a company matches the zone of comfort and the style of the founder of the company. Managers hire those people who are like them so culture of the organization which is established can be changed by the new managers.
Culture of an organization grows with time. Those people who want the cultural change to be considered, an event which should be significant must occur. This event can be an appropriate loss of customers and sales or even losing million dollars. When realization and recognition of people occurs in an organization about the need to change the culture then the process of changing culture can take place. But making these changes is a very difficult ob and is sometimes not pretty.
Three major steps which are involved in changing culture of an organization are:
Before going for a culture change current culture must be first understood completely or the way in which things are presented now.
Once current organization is understood, the organization must decide its direction and go and what it wants to do must also be decided. Decision of what the culture of organization must look should also be taken in order to support success. Vision of the future must also be established and how the change would support that culture must also be analyzed.
Finally the behavior of the individuals in the organization must also be changed so that desired organization culture must be created. This third step is the most difficult step in changing the culture.
The desired organization culture must be planned. The organization must plan that where it wants to go before any step to change an organization culture is implemented. When the organization is having a clear picture of where it is standing at present then it can effectively plan that where it wants to go in the next step.
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