Organizational Culture Aspects and its Impact on Change Management Improvement (Case study: IRANKISH Credit Card Company)

Subject Areas : Journal of Cultural Management

Soudabe  Ebrahim Zade ¹ (دانش اموخته کارشناسی ارشد امور فرهنگی، دانشگاه آزد اسلامی، واحد علوم وتحقیقات، تهران، ایران. مسئول مکاتبات)
Mohsen  Ghadami ² (استادیار و عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم وتحقیقات، تهران، ایران)

Received: 2014-08-28 Accepted : 2014-09-29 Published : 2014-12-22

Keywords: corporate culture - change man,

Abstract :

Usually, change plans are faced with obstacles and resistance from employees so experts confirmed on organizational culture as a factor for improving change management. This study aimed to evaluate the components of organizational culture on change management improvement. For this purpose, seven hypotheses were explaining to assess the relationship between organizational culture components (participation - integrity - Flexibility - Values and Norms - Risk Disclosure - innovation – organizational support) and change management.This study was an applied descriptive - correlational research and the main tool for gathering information was questionnaire that organizational Culture components was based on bigliardi and colleagues (2012) and change management model based on Adkar that presented an implemented by haitt (2006) too. This questionnaire was distributed among Iran Kish Credit Company and finally 198 valid questionnaires were collected, and thereby, gathered data was analyzed by regression test. The results of this research, prepared a more comprehensive approach to the relationship between culture and change management. The results show that the components of organizational culture include of participation, integration, flexibility, support and values had effective impact on change management and two components include risk climate and innovation, with no significant influence on change management.