Can cultures be managed within organisations?
Your task in this blog is to conduct independent research that will enable you to:
1. Select a real UK-based business [in an industry of your choice] that is currently facing a need
to adjust its organisational culture in response to a business need such as competitive
innovation, ethical challenges, economic pressures or societal expectation.
2. Explain the principal challenges that an organisation faces when seeking to adjust and
accommodate changes in its cultural practice, based on your understanding of corporate culture
and its implementation.
3. Propose implementation strategies that will enable your chosen organisation to transition
its organisational culture to address the challenges that you have identified, and
4. Develop a charter statement that outlines what an organisation’s leadership should do to
embrace new cultural practices including cognitive drivers, resource reallocation, employee
motivation and embedding cultural practice.
Understanding the key words
In this blog, you are asked to think and write in specific ways as a MBA student. Below are some
short explanations about these key words:
Select – introduce a UK based business currently experiencing the need to adjust its
organisational culture. Provide reasons for choosing this organisation and how the learning can
impact on your leadership style.
Explain – using evidence from previous research and case studies, explain the principal
challenges the chosen UK business faces with reference to contemporary theory on
organisational culture. What are the implications of using this theory or model?
