This individual forum post assignment provides a chance for you to engage with the material and with classmates in a meaningful way prior to the Module 5 live session. 1. Evaluate the job that Karabo Morule has done leading cultural change? What aspects of the "Choosing Strategies for Change" framework could she apply? Word Limit: Your initial post to answer these questions should be 400-500 words. Your response to a classmate’s initial post should be at least 150 words. Citations and references do not count toward the word count. Karabo Morule had one goal in mind, transform the culture into a new customer-led approach while retaining the heritage of a culture based on shared values (Govender M. 2020). Karabo recognized the dangers of continuing in the status quo given the growth the company was experiencing. By recognizing this, she established a sense of urgency and highlighted everything wrong with the current culture and why it would be detrimental to the success of the company if it continued. In order to accomplish her vision of the transformed culture, Karabo knew she needed support from key players and chose to follow the path of Kotter’s change model by speaking at the Provincial Management Board to address key stakeholders and begin to form a powerful coalition. By explaining her vision of the cultural change and communicating it the correct stakeholders, she was beginning to gain senior leaderships support and trust which is required to get sustained political support. More so, Karabo inspired confidence to her company and its employees that she could successfully lead the cultural shift. This is of the upmost importance, if others do not believe you can succeed then they will be less willing to offer their support and trust. The culture shift she was aiming to complete went hand in hand with her upbringing and her past experiences, so this was something she cared deeply about and it was not a difficult task for her to convince others that she could lead them to completing the change. I believe that Karaba can apply facilitation and support to help leading the cultural change. Given the fact that this cultural shift focuses on hope and optimism, the offering of support could play a huge factor in helping the culture be adopted and demonstrated. Karaba can act as someone employees can come talk to if they have any problems embracing the new inclusive culture. If fear and anxiety are a driving force of resistance, as they do play a large factor in this case, having someone to listen to their concerns and provide emotional support is key to implementing such a change. Karaba can also apply cooptation to get ahead of the curve and see what the resisters are feeling and try and win them over to joining her vision. Overall, she is doing a great job leading change by actually broadcasting how her everyday actions follow her culture vision and if she continues down this path, it will stick throughout the company. This study source was downloaded by 100000844757005 from CourseHero.com on 04-13-2022 09:00:58 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/78321202/Culture-change-karabadocx/ Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
