Implementing Cultural Change in Organizations

Companies initiate change all of the time. Many of these initiatives fail to deliver the goals set at the outset. Others fail totally leaving in their wake skeptical organizations unwilling to invest their time and energy in the future. This book was written to help organizations eliminate this serious problem. The approach followed was to explain that what organizations are trying to change; work performance tactics are simply not enough. Instead, they also need to seriously address the 'soft skills' referred to in this text as the eight elements of change and the organizational culture. Compiled from the author's years of practical and vast experience, this groundbreaking text explains the foundational levels of change that are more often than not ignored by the vast majority of books on the subject of change. "Implementing Cultural Change at Work" focuses on assisting the reader in developing a detailed understanding of these often ignored critical elements both collectively and independently. There are few texts that demystify the concept of culture better than this text.
And as such it is an excellent supplemental source on for students involved in a business or management curriculum that includes implementing change. The book explains the reason change initiatives fail and how to correct this problem by addressing the eight elements of change and the organization's culture. The book teaches the 'why' and 'how' of successful change through the use of real-world examples and the web of cultural change - an analysis tool to identify areas for focused effort to improve weaknesses; includes a Learning Objectives section at the start of each chapter describing what is included; and, contains a set of questions that will help the student understand the concepts in each chapter. These questions were developed so that students can relate the concepts to their own experiences.