Assignment 8

Assignment: Cultural Change Assessment

For this Assignment, refer back to the organization “Red Cross” you chose in Week 1 and consider the following as you prepare for this assignment:

· Assignments you completed as you reflected upon and analyzed the organization.

· Reflections documented in your Organizational Reflection.

· Discussions and Assignments you have completed throughout our course that identify and assess a negative cultural component recognized in the organization.

· Consider how the negative cultural component influences the levels of culture within the organization, the structures of power within the organization, the operational success and sustainability within the organization.

· Consider how the organization’s vision promotes (or does not promote) positive social change.

· Identify one improvement strategy that a leader, or leaders, can use to improve the negative cultural component within the organization and how the transformation will more effectively promote positive social change.

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To prepare for this Assignment, pay particular attention to the following Learning Resources:

Vision, Mission, and Goals - Walden University - Acalog ACMS™

The Promise and Problems of Organizational Culture – “See attachment”

Sinek, S. (2010, May 4). How great leaders inspire action. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

To complete the Cultural Change Assessment Assignment , compose a cohesive document that addresses the following:

· Identify one negative cultural component recognized in the company you chose.

· Explain how the negative cultural component influences the following:

· The specific levels of culture within the company

· The structures of power within the culture

· The operational success and sustainability of the culture

· The company’s vision to promote positive social change

· Formulate one improvement strategy that a leader, or leaders, can use to improve the negative cultural component within the organization you chose.

· Defend why you think your proposed strategy will be effective.

· Explain how the transformation will more effectively promote positive change within the organization.

· Assess how your strategy could be used to promote positive social change, in alignment with Walden’s mission.

· 4 – 5 pages in length

· No plagiarism

· APA citing