Organisational Culture Change is a must for Organisational Development

Workplace culture is the manner in which the organisation carries out things. It is something that is shared with the whole of the organisation or among some specific groups. The way in which people behave in an organisational structure is largely dependent on the workplace culture. The whole concept of organisational culture is very important to the organisation because it directly has an impact on the success and the overall organisational development.

Culture is something intangible being made up of various beliefs, values and norms practised on the day to day working of the organisation. This is something which is not easy to measure.

The Culture change with time because of group interactions, leaders, organisational development, and interaction rules. The culture of the organisation changes with the shifting of the employees in the organisation.

It is generally seen that businesses carry out organisational change for improving the effectiveness and productivity of the organisation. Usually these changes fail to achieve the purpose for which these are made. The very simple reason of this failure is the non-acceptance by the culture in the organisation. For this reason the task of organisational culture change has to be carried out.

For any effective implementation of change program in the organisation, an effective plan for suitably changing the culture of the organisation is important. If the culture is adaptive and recognises the change, the implementation of change is easy, otherwise difficult and unsuccessful. For leading a successful culture change in an organisation, the following guidelines can be followed-

1. Study the culture- The current prevailing culture in the organisation has to be studied.

2. Need for change in culture for organisational development - what modifications have to be made for altering the culture.

3. Leadership strategy- the leaders play a very important role in changing the organisation’s culture for the overall development of the organisation. A strategy has to be formulated to change the leadership culture so as to change the structure of the organisation.

4. Proper communication of the change and its impacts and benefits should be discussed.

5. Proper implementation of various decisions made collectively.

Adopting culture change can help your organisation to grow leaps and bounds. So make sure that you work closely with business psychologists who can develop modules to deal with organisational culture change.

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