Thursday, November 6, 2008

HBO session 4: Setting the satge for an organizational change

In order to bring an immediate change a top down approach would be probably more successful than a bottom up approach.
The stepping stone towards changing the organization culture is changing the behavior of the people of the organization.
To align people with the new vision/culture, companies should award the people who work towards achieving the common goal
and penalize the people who have a negative. I understand that people who would be rewarded, would start liking the job and would continue to put efforts in the right direction and the others would automatically be left out. 

Implementing any strategy calls for firm decisions. There would be some people who would be in favour of change, some reluctant and some dead opposite to change. Thus one vital strategy should be to come up with some quick victories. It would ensure greater acceptance to the cultural change. This part was most appealing to me and is a key learning for future.

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