The leaders of today must implement large-scale organizational change initiatives in all tight deadlines with fewer resources. However, the expected performance results are often not implemented as the internal resistance slows or disrupts their initiatives changes. Combined evaluation of culture and informal structure can help to identify barriers to change and facilitate change initiatives. Based on work with 10 organizations, shows how this approach can help drive change through people and values in certain positions networks diagnostics cultural drivers of network fragmentation, identify the dominant beliefs or paradigms affecting cultural change, and to intervene in a balanced emphasis on instrumental and expressive relations. "Hide
by Michael Johnson-Cramer, Salvatore Parise, Robert L. Cross Source: California Management Review 26 pages. Publication Date: 01 May 2007. Prod. #: CMR366-PDF-ENG
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