Culture Transformation Consulting Project

Scenario: Culture Transformation Consulting Project

Your team has been hired as a Culture Transformation Consulting Group for a large organization (WALMART)  facing significant challenges:

• Operating as a hybrid organization with inconsistent practices
• Some departments have toxic environments while others have supportive management
• Generally low psychological safety across the organization
• Rigid hierarchical structure limiting communication and innovation
• High turnover among creative and early-career employees
• Lack of innovation and siloed thinking between departments

Instructions

Part 1: Individual Problem Diagnosis

For this first deliverable, each team member will conduct an individual analysis focusing on TWO aspects of the organizational cultural problem. This analysis will later inform your team's comprehensive transformation plan.

Step 1: Select one of the following roles based on your interests and strengths:

• OB Analyst: Maps toxic behaviors to organizational structure and identifies key characteristics of structures supporting inclusive and innovative cultures
• Human Capital Strategist: Designs motivational strategies to address engagement issues
• Inclusive and Innovative Cultures Consultant: Addresses bias and inclusion and their impact on innovation
• Change Manager: Analyzes readiness for change and potential resistance points
• Leadership Advisor: Evaluates leadership styles and follower dynamics affecting organizational culture

Step 2: Diagnose the Problem from your role perspective:

1. Identifying specific structural and cultural elements contributing to the toxic environment
2. Applying at least two organizational behavior concepts (e.g., group dynamics, organizational structure, leadership-follower relations, motivation theory)
3. Assessing how stereotype threat, and power dynamics may be affecting inclusion, creativity, and employee engagement
4. Providing specific examples of how these issues manifest in hybrid work environments

Step 3: Prepare a analysis document that includes:

• Introduction to your role and focus area
• Diagnosis of key problems using organizational behavior concepts
• Recommendations for your Team Humanistic Cultural Transformation Plan:
  1. Recommend changes to organizational structure that promote agility, cross-functional collaboration, and innovation (e.g., shift to a team-based or matrix structure or other alternatives).
  2. Integrate humanistic management principles such as dignity, trust, ethical leadership, and well-being and recommend actions to address at least two key problems identified by your team.
  3. Recommend key tech tools to implement for successful plan implementation.
• References to at least three scholarly sources that inform your analysis