Last updated on August 3rd, 2023 at 10:03 am
Culture transformation could perhaps best be defined as a constantly changing process of updating a company's outlook or culture, and ultimately, its policies, and actions to reflect a more efficient of operation. Culture, itself can perhaps be best defined as a collection of values, beliefs, and other attributes that comprises any person's personality. This directly reflects onto how a person thinks, what he or she thinks or even how they react to a particular situation. Culture in an organization develops over time, with each idea that spreads around its individuals until they are firmly rooted in the organization.
Transforming such a culture can be quite a challenge, however, not impossible. Since individual personalities are an integral part of the culture and knowing that personalities could be changed, means that even a well-rooted culture could be transformed if done in the right way.
The first step that must be taken when transforming any company's culture is to figure out which parts of the business work, and which do not. This involves assessing the qualities of every single employee. This will help the organization have an idea of how to transform and help identify what factors to look out for when improving the organizational culture. Changes must be applied at two major levels, the organization as a whole, as well as among the different subunits of the organization.
There are 4 important steps which must be followed by any company seeking to transform its cultural structure. They are as follows:
- Understanding how the present culture works are very important. There is no point in going forward unless this is first accomplished.
- Based on the understanding of the present culture, the organization must now decide on the direction in which they would like to go and also decide upon its new outlook or the perception that they wish to convey to other people.
- Just knowing their goal is not enough. The organization must come up with a plan to achieve that goal despite whatever setbacks they may face.
- Every member of the organization must strive to change themselves and their behaviours in accordance with the new direction that the organization wishes to go in. This is the most difficult part of the transformational change.
A cultural transformation is important for any organization because the best results are obtained when people work in the environment that is the most productive for them. This is what cultural transformation is basically about. There are a lot of benefits to this kind of positive cultural transformation, namely:
- Workers will end up loving their jobs and this naturally increases productivity.
- Workers' pride in their respective companies will increase since they will consider being able to work in a place with such a positive working culture as a privilege.
Workers will be more dedicated, thus reducing costs related to low turn overs.
