Organization culture:
Organizational culture grows over time. People are comfortable with the current culture. For people to consider culture change, usually a significant event must occur. An event that rocks their world such as flirting with bankruptcy, a significant loss of sales and customers, or losing a million dollars, might get peoples ' attention. Organizational culture change is possible. It requires understanding, commitment, and tools.
Steps in Organizational Culture Change
The organization must plan where it wants to go before trying to make any changes in the organizational culture. With a clear picture of where the organization is currently, the organization can plan where it wants to be next.
Mission, vision, and values: to provide a framework for the assessment and evaluation of the current organizational culture, organization needs to develop a picture of its desired future. What does the organization want to create for the future?
Mission, vision, and values should be examined for both the strategic and the value based components of the organization.
Finally, the individuals in the organization must decide to change their behavior to create the desired organizational culture. This is the hardest
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