Thinking about change in the current organizational culture might be a result of a serious thought by the top management, falling efficiency or just a note from the suggestion box. But making of a high performance takes a bit more than just some speeches from the dais.
A high performance organization is a result of not just an impressive pool of talent, but a management which helps aligning their efforts with well planned strategies. It is of utmost importance that every individual of the organization knows where they are going, is it a situation where there would be a merger happening soon, or are they heading towards an acquisition, or worst, are they looking forward to job cuts. The first step towards a culture change would be to bring the organization together. The idea is to keep the employees within the conversation circle, this would even take care of the grapevines and motivate and keep them engaged. It always helps to keep the communication effective at all levels. Nobody would want to lose their best people because of lack of proper interaction, but surprisingly it is one of the prominent reasons found for people switching organizations.
The gap between the current and desired culture should be gauged, it gives a fair estimate of what amount of time and efforts it should take. It is not much of a drill but requires benchmarking work and analyses of how deviated the current practices are from the best practices. Monetary rewards hardly help when there is a lot of discontent within the organization. The rewarding systems in such times such as this can go in for some changes too, rewarding individuals for their individual performance in terms of how it contributed to the organizational goals would make the employee’s vision clearer.
Talking about change in the organizational culture, well many workers would not like to have a change at all, its just natural human tendency of opposing a change, But at the same time organizational culture is a great talent attractor, thinking about it, is the organization a talent spoiler? May be now it would be easier to decide is this the time to go for a change. It takes sincere prolonged efforts to achieve it. Would the squeeze be worth the juice, well you wouldn’t ask if you have already got busy counting.
