Leading Organization Culture Change



Contents

Introduction4

Organizational Change5

Previous Concept of Organizational Change5

Leading an Organizational Change6

Essential Elements of Successful Change Management7

The Presence of Dedicated and Far Sighted Transformational Leaders,7

A Clear Vision8

Considerate Why Resistance to Change is Inevitable9

Organizations' Culture Integration with Strategies10

Creating a Sense of Urgency11

Change Initiative Must be Obliged Throughout All Levels of the Organization by Developing Holistic Strategies11

Extensive Communication with Employees12

Involving employees in the change-process,13

Celebration of Milestone achievement with Employees13

Involving Clients and Customers in Change Management Processes14

Continuous Evolution Must be Developed within the System14

Leading Organizational and Cultural Change: The Practice15

Successful Change Management in IBM15

Transformational Leader16

A Clear Vision16

Overcoming Employee Resistance16

Getting the Right Employees Along while Creating Sense of Urgency16

Development of Strategies17

Extensive two way communication with the Employees17

Involving IBM's Employees and Celebrating Short Term Wins18

Involving Customers and Clients18

Ongoing Commitment to Change18

Failure in Change Management19

Failure in Change Management: SSB and Schroder19

Conclusion20

References23

Leading Organization Culture Change

Introduction

Organizational change is a global trend. Each business, regardless of its origin and capabilities has to undergo change in some way or the other. For a number of organizations, the change is an inspiration for new challenges to overcome and new opportunities towards creativity. When the organization is going through change, the true talent of the workforce is exposed and improved. The trend of change in organizational culture and structure is escalating at a very face pace and frequency, along with a number of complexity and commotion. (East, 2011).

Managing change needs time as it difficult and complex. It involves an effective and efficient utilization of different skills that involve leadership as well as people skills. It consists on implementation of strategic processes and initiatives often in a systematic way, concurrently. There are seven key elements that are necessary and essential in order to create a successful change (Kotler, 1994) that are further analyzed and are divided into eleven parts, for the better implementation of change management (Foster, 2013). Strategic change management states to a structural path in the change of teams, individuals and organizations from a present state to a state in which the vision is created. Most of the definitions of Change Management include the change processes or individual as well as organizational. (Brandtzeg. S. R, 2009)

The change management experience that was implemented after the great loss of International Business Machines - IBM will be discussed. Many Organizations do try to implement change in their structure but eventually fail as they overlook or certain fundamentals elements which they lack that are related to their stockholders, users and leaders, which eventually takes them to a disastrous failure. Finally, an overview will be discussed to implement change on a continuous and ongoing basis rather than by reacting to the situation.

Leading Organizational Change and Culture

Organizational Change

Organizational change is a process that an organization uses in order to create a competitive advantage for itself by leading itself to continuous excellence and foreseeing the future that is about to come. Organizational change helps in improving the performance and organizational outcomes (McCarthy & Eastman, 2010).

An Organizational change is needed to react to the ever changing ...