In: Operations Management
Organizational culture as a set of shared assumptions that guide
behavior. It is also a model of such collective behavior and
assumptions that is taught to new members of the organization as a
means of understanding and even thinking and feeling. In this way,
organizational culture influences the way people and teams interact
with customers and stakeholders. In addition, organizational
culture can affect how many employees identify with the
organization.
Change management is a collective term for all approaches to
organizing, supporting and assisting people, groups, and
organizations in making change. The most common drivers for change
include: technological progress, crisis monitoring and changing
consumer habits; Pressure from new business participants,
acquisitions, synergies and restructuring. It includes methods that
redirect or limit the use of resources, business processes,
budgetary allocations, or other modes of operation that
significantly change a company or organization. Organizational
change management takes into account the whole organization and
what needs to be changed, while change management can be used to
indicate how people and groups are affected by such organizational
change. He has a variety of disciplines ranging from behavioral and
social sciences to information technology and business
solutions.
If organizational culture is seen as something institutional, it
can be organized and changed depending on the leadership and the
members. Culture as a metaphor basically considers the organization
to be its own culture, created through communication and symbols or
metaphorical comparisons. Culture is the basis on which personal
experience creates different perspectives.
The organization's communication perspective on culture looks at
culture in three ways:
Tradition: View culture through purposeful objects such as stories,
rituals and symbols
Translation: View culture through a network of common meanings
(members of a thematic sharing organization)
Critical Critique - Examines culture through a network of common
meanings, as well as power struggles created by networks of
competing meanings.