Q3.
Culture is a collection of beliefs and customs that are shared and accepted by people.
Corporate culture is a collection of values, belief and norms that shared by people and groups in an organization which controls the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization.
Corporate culture can refer not only to what is done, but also to how and why it is done. It refers to the mental and inter-personal processes that are happening within an organization. This includes the decision making processes within the organization and more importantly it includes the assumption and attitude the decision making processes.
Corporate culture change is about:
Transforming the organization through continuous influence and shaping of beliefs, assumptions, values and patterns of behaviour towards creating a desired work environment.
Changing peoples mindsets towards a new way of thinking and working that will make the organization more effective, efficient or more competitive.
Opening minds and winning the hearts of people to a new way of working.
Improving relationship among people and giving them meaning and satisfaction at work through a sense of belonging and a set of shared values.
Phases of culture change
Culture assessment
Culture gap analysis
Influencing culture change
Sustaining the new culture
Business leaders who try to implement a change experience resistance to change by people. It is easier to decide on change and announce the desired changes than to actually people to change.
People are creature of habit and changing habits is much harder than changing a structure or process. Most organizations don’t know how to address corporate culture when they go through changes/
The benefits of a high performing corporate culture include:
-Operational efficiency and effectiveness
-More successful recovery from mergers, layoff or reorganization