How leaders can manage culture change

How leaders can manage culture change

Introduction

In today's Globalized world companies are faced to a variety of changes, which includes the technological, political, economic, and cultural changes. Their daily life is punctuated with different adaptation efforts in order to guarantee good working and continuously improving their quality of services and products. Their experience is punctuated by various adaptation efforts to ensure proper operation and durability. The change of leadership in this context is an event that has various consequences, which may affect the deeper aspects of the life of the enterprise which raises countless questions about the possible changes that can cause (Keller & Price, 2011). In particular, cultural changes to the company are located in the heart of the phenomenon of changes in leadership roles and put more focus on the issues that how this changes are effectively managed by the leaders.

Discussion

In the wave of work and research analyzing the phenomenon, those interested the conduct of cultural change are widely developed. Many practices and approaches were then proposed in order change or manage the corporate culture, causing various controversies. Indeed, the cultural change refers to a modified profoundly different elements rooted in the practices of the working group, they are observable in nature (rules and standards, artifacts, rites) or implicit (values and beliefs, ideologies, myths, taboos). Leadership role in managing the cultural changes is part of the development of new practices that brings the project to transform the team and the organization with changes in the culture of the team (Denning, 2011). The leaders focus on the change management, which is the totality of consciously controlled measures and organization for the purpose of initiating and implementing new structures, systems, strategies, processes and cultures based on a groundbreaking target concept (Fullan, 2002).

The leaders aims to manage ...