Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Balanga City
Graduate School
Culture Change
Prepared by:
YOLANDA D. REYES
Culture is the set of values,
guiding beliefs, understanding
ways of thinking and norms shared
by members of an organization.
Culture Change
• C – critical
• C – continuously • H – hopeful
changing • A – adaptive
• U – unique • N- ew
• L – link to • G –grateful
progress/history • E - empowered
• T – trademark
• U – unquestionable
• R – risk
• E – endless/eternal
Functions of Culture
• Pepsi
• “Come alive with the Pepsi Generation”
• Translated into Tawainese as:
• “Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the
dead”
Cultural Elements
• Hidden elements • Visible elements
• Values about what is • Symbol – things that
important stand for something
• Norms about else
appropriate and • Material object that
inappropriate behavior hold cultural meaning
• Assumptions and beliefs • Heroes – company role
about what is true models, highlight the
• Attitudes toward others values and norms a
and issues company wishes to
reinforce
Tools for change
• Information
• Support
• resources
Incremental Radical
Innovation Innovation
•Minor modifications to •Significant breakthrough
existing product representing major shift in
design
School Transformation ?
improvement ?