People in New Organization

People in New Organization

Many companies today are under intense economic pressure. Reorganizations, takeovers, mergers, downsizings, joint ventures, and other major changes are extremely common, as companies try to grow and survive.

Since most people normally hate to go through change, one can easily understand how today's pace of change can be stressful for many employees.

Culture defines how people behave both around others and when they are alone. Organizational culture is represented by a characteristic set of behaviors, revealed in what people do and say. Developing the right culture for a company's individual strategy is crucial to achieving sustainable competitive advantage.

The culture is aligned with strategy. This is vital to building capabilities and attaining goals. An aligned culture will support and facilitate the capabilities needed to achieve strategic goals, whereas a divergent culture will undermine them.

Most leaders recognize how critical a high-performance culture is to their organization’s success. But many are discouraged by the gap between their current and target culture. Others are frustrated because they don’t know why their culture is broken—or what steps they might take to get and keep a high-performance culture.