UArizona Wk 7 Change Difficult to Achieve Within Organization Is Culture Discussion
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Discussion: Anchoring Change
***MANDATORY*** In all your discussions, responding to colleague’s post and assignments, you will need to draw from the assigned readings in the course, your own research, and your personal and professional experiences.
The end result of a successful change process should include a change in an organization’s culture. This change in culture ensures that the vision is permanently entrenched in the organization. Kotter warns against change visions that begin with a cultural change—he maintains that the roots have not been established to sustain the long and often exhausting change process. Rather, Kotter suggests, if you adhere to his eight-stage process, cultural change will occur naturally, creating a culture that encourages future opportunities, empowerment, and continual renewal.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review this week’s Learning Resources, especially:
Kotter, J. P. (2012). Leading change. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.
Chapter 9, “Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change”
Chapter 10, “Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture”
Post a single space one page cohesive response based on your analysis of the Learning Resources and your professional experience. Be sure to discuss ALL the following:
Analyze Kotter’s argument that, “culture changes only after you have successfully altered people’s actions, after the new behavior produces some group benefit for a period of time, and after people see the connections between the new action and the performance improvement.” (Kotter, 2012, p. 164–65)
Compare your organization after your change has successfully been implemented to before the implementation.
What are the forces that might push your organization or community back toward the former status quo, and how do you overcome them? What are the dangers of trying to move forward too rapidly?
- Break down the consequences of not anchoring change within the culture. Outline how you can work to ensure your plan is anchored within the culture and not affected by these consequences.
Culture change is a result of transformational change. Analyze the levels of culture as discussed in the Learning Resources.
Identify the levels of culture that are most important to shift in a transformational change. Explain your reasoning.
Examine how the levels of culture help shape your change plan and ensure you are anchoring change within the culture.
