Changing Organizational Culture Case Study

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Changing organizational culture is challenging, very difficult and time consuming task. According to Torbin Rick (2011) There are four major steps that involved in changing an organizational culture: (1) Understand how the company is doing things right now (current culture; (2) Define the direction you want your organization want to pursue, how you will achieve this for the new culture to make it happen ; (3) Create plans to make sure that the desired new culture will become a reality; (4) Leaders in the organization need to change their behavior to have the new culture to be in place. He also sited other important components in changing the corporate culture: (1) Create a new mission, vision and values statement that is easy understood …show more content…

Effective communication is very crucial in changing the corporate culture. Employees must understand why and but be informed on the purpose of the organizational change for them to be engaged and be willing to make the changes. Employees are resisting the change because they are informed. According to the study conducted by R. Boohene and A. Williams they concluded that “ Utilizing the strategy of employee involvement not only enhance two-way communication within the organization, but sends a clear message to the employees that they are valued”(Boohene & Williams, 2012, p. 142). In this case the CEO did drastic changes without informing, talking to the employees first before he implemented the changes. The action of the CEO resulted to the decreased in the morale of the employee probably because they feel like they are being punished and being blamed why the hospital is not performing well. The sudden change also caused increased in the turnover and job security decreased opting experienced employees to resign and find work to other hospital that they feel will value them. Hospital has no option but hire new people which are maybe less experience and this resulted to more complaints from the patients and deteriorating patient satisfaction scores which very important in encouraging patient to seek treatment to your hospital.
In this case changing the culture

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