Organizational Structure and Culture Change

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You are employed in a large consulting firm. A new client has engaged your firm. It is a well-established, nationwide company that for years dominated the market share in its niche industry. The company has a traditional, hierarchical, and function-based organizational structure with many levels of management and uses centralized decision making. The organization prefers to use a small number of account managers based in the headquarters as the point of contact for all customer inquiries and problem resolution. The culture is conservative, stable, and risk averse. Teamwork is considered wasteful.
The company is noticing a disturbing trend of customers switching to its competitors. These competitors are small, agile firms that emphasize rapid adoption of new technologies and fast, empowered, team-based customer service. These companies are local to their customers, while your client has a central headquarter office with four regional offices that only provide limited services.
Based on its own internal study, the client company wishes to undertake organizational structure change and organizational culture change. They seek advice on what specific changes are needed.
You have been assigned to the team working on this project with one of your firm’s senior consultants. The team has asked you to draft a presentation for internal review. Ultimately, the presentation will be delivered to the client by the project manager.
Your task is to create a presentation, with speaker notes, including the following:

  • Analyze and describe the reasons why the current organizational structure makes your client vulnerable to its new competitors.
  • Propose a new organizational structure. Explain how the new structure will address the problem of client retention.
  • Evaluate and inform the client of the changes needed in its organizational culture to support the new organizational structure.
  • Explain how teamwork might be used to support the new organizational structure and culture. Be sure to indicate which “types” of teams will be used.

Recommendations must be supported by applicable scholarly sources.
Your final product should be a 6- to 8-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (excluding the title slide and reference slide), using a minimum of 4 sources from professional literature. Professional literature may include the University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, and .gov). Be sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

 
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culture change and visual management

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this is the link https://www.lean.org/common/display/?o=3207
https://www.lean.org/common/display/?o=3207
LEAN CASE STUDY 3: TEMPLATE
INSTRUCTIONS: Use this word.doc to type your answers to the questions and submit to Blackboard
Topic: Culture Change & Visual Management
Facility: Cleveland Clinic
Name__________________________________
Instructions: Use this template and always use “Bullet Points” when possible for multiple items under a “Topic”
1) What “TOOLS” did they use to change the culture.
List the tool and briefly explain how it was used. (Use bullet points)
2) “Organizational Alignment” (1 page)
a)Why is an organizational alignment always necessary when converting to a “Lean Structure”
b) How did the change affect duties of the 3 levels of personnel
3) Visual Management (2 pages)
a) How did they use visual management
b) What benefit did visual management have on the way personnel did their job
c) How did “problem solving” change with the new system
4) Standardization (1 page)
a) Why did they standardize the work
b) How did they use “Visual Management” in standard work
5) Culture Change (1 page) (use bullet points with brief explanations)
a) What effect did the items 1-4 above have on changing the culture
 
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NoJax's Corporate Culture and Change

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In your continued role as NoJax’s organizational behavior consultant, you will examine their culture and how management can help employees adjust to change. You will need to use the management profiles in the company background document to analyze leadership traits and styles. NoJax needs you to write a report of their company’s culture and how change may impact employees and their relationship with management.

  • Assess the company’s culture and provide your analysis, including the relationships between management and employees.
  • Identify the company’s structure and explain how it impacts the culture.
  • Provide an analysis of management leadership traits and leadership styles. Assess how those traits and styles may be impacting the company’s culture.
  • How might a change in structure or management style impact the culture and employees?
 
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Culture Change and Nonverbal Communication

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– All should use the text and at least two additional sources.
Option A: Change something about yourself in terms of adornment (clothing, jewelry, style, hair, etc.). Make sure that it is a big enough change that those around you will notice and that you have enough places to travel to get good reactions. Observe the reactions of those around you. You may need to have someone help you with observations. Do not do anything illegal, or that will get you fired. However, do have fun.

    1. What reactions did you expect?
    2. What reactions did you observe?
    3. What reaction did your helper observe?
    4. Did the reactions depend on the relationship you had with those around you?
    5. What does your clothing say about you? How do clothing and other adornments “make a person”?

    here is a brain storm: I’ll choose to talk about clothing in general. I am from Saudi Arabia, so it’s really a big difference to me , back when in Saudi I cannot wears what am wearing right now. In Saudi there no such a thing as jewelry, tattoos, it’s a conservative community and if you are going out of the box, people will look and stare at you, maybe some of them will talk to you and said this is not allowed,,,,,(am student in the US for almost 4 years)
    When I went back home last year, i can tell people are sort of stating at me and looking at me little bit weirdly .
    I was expecting some reactions from people, but not this fast, immediately in the security gate the police man was looking at me in funny way, he said from where are you coming from? I said America, he gave me a pity look, then he said ok I see.(i went back for a vecation)
    even at the chick points, they will search me and treat me differently than people who wearing a traditional Saudi costume.
    Even with family, friends, people who used to see me before, like the man who owns the grocery store near my home, Neighbors, mostly every one that i met dropped a kind of comment.
    People there are not familiar with tattoos, man bun, or anything is not traditional, so when you look different than people, they will stare at you and maybe make some comments, positive or negative ether ways.
    And about the helper, I’ll consider everyone who was with me during any situation as a helper. Many of my friends were saying people looking at me weirdly, like i am an alien or something.
    And surly am gonna have more comments from close people as family and friends.
    And about my clothing, it’s not saying much, but I like to be clean and dress well, and this is making me more confident of myself I guess, it’s like when you just got a haircut and wearing something new, I believe that’s give a some kind of comfort and confident.

 
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