How a restructure affects culture.
Most culture change programmes begin with a company developing new values and cascading them down the organization. Employees usually respond positively to new values and find them exciting. Within the space of a year, executives are delighted by how they see their culture has changed. Then they introduce a change in systems. To make the systems work, they change structures and roles. Employees under stress, revert to their old behaviours. All the work done in a culture change is lost.
The info-graphic below shows how a poorly implemented restructure can impact on corporate culture.
See our other detailed info-graphics showing the journeys each of the following groups take in a culture change.
- The overall corporate culture journey
- The Employee journey.
- The steering committee journey.
- The senior managers journey.
- The change agents journey.
- The executives journey.
Also see the related infographics on how a systems or structure change can affect a corporate culture.
If you intend changing systems or structures, ensure you integrate a way to address these problems as part of your corporate culture journeys.
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