ORAGANIZATIONAL ORAGANIZATIONAL CULTURE CULTURE

&& CULTURAL CHANGE CULTURAL CHANGE

PRESENTED BY:-

RAJNEESH RANJAN

• Defining organizational culture

…a collective understanding, a shared and integrated set or perceptions, memories, values and attitudes that have been learned over time and which determine the expectations of behavior that are taught to new members in their socialization into the organization.

• Impact of culture

Culture gives identity, provides collective commitment, builds social system stability and allows people to make sense of the organization (Sannwald, 2000)

• Understanding culture for organizational change

Organizational Culture

Strategy and policies of leading companies cannot remain fixed and rigid in a changing technical, political and cultural environment.

They have adapt continuously to the changing world.

For internal changes within the organization , alteration in social and personal values is required.

Within the culture of internal organization managers should analyze and distinguish:

a)How they want people to behave ?

b)What company objectives, policies and procedures prescribe?

c) The actual values and behavioral pattern that workers to follow?

d)The informal ( unprescribed ) relationships?

Capitalize on propitious moment.

Combine caution with optimum.

Understanding resistance to culture to change.

Changing many elements but maintain some continuity.

Recognize the implementation.

Self modify and create appropriate.

Modify socialization tactics.

Find and cultivate innovative leadership.

Conversion to a new management system and a

new culture takes time. Business strategies, social

structures, personal beliefs cannot be altered in a

day’s time. Managers can assist the transition by

dealing with the psychological factors of learning,

anxiety and confidence (involved in a change of

system)

C.S.V.Murthy, Change Management (Himalaya Publishing House)Stephen P. Robbins, Organizational Behavior, (Prentice Hall Publication) www.wikipedia.comwww.humanlinks.com