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Organizational Change Management Assignment

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ORGANISATION CHANGEMANAGEMENT
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ESSAYChange is inevitable and there are many factors that affect the change process and theeffectiveness of change at the place. Culture and power are two of the factors that affect thechange process in the country. This essay revolves around the cultural analysis of Singapore andAustralia and its effect on any type of change that occurred in the organisation of that particularcounty. The focus is also on how these national culture influences the French and Raven’s fivebases of power in the country. The last part of the essay describes about the use of power inchange programs and its effectiveness (Todnem 2005, 369-380). Hofstede model is the model that can be best suited for analysing the cultural dimensions of thecountries. It has several elements that need to be discussed in order to analyse the variouscultural aspects of the country power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance,masculinity, long term orientation and indulgence. If Singaporean culture is explored, it has beenrealised that it is a multi-ethnic society having 77% of the Chinese, 6% of Indians and around15% of the Malay with 2% of the expatriates. On the other hand, Australia is the country witharound 67% British origins residing there followed by some of the European ethnicities and only3% of the Aboriginal natives are left (Smith 2005, 408-412). The first element of Hofstede that is power distance deals with acceptance of the unequaldistribution of power amongst the people in the organisation by the less powerful people. Thescoring in this element suggests that Singapore scores more in this context and people aredependent on their managers for decisions. This is because of the majority of Chinese people inthe country who believes in Confucian teachings (Kang, Syen, and Mastin 2008, 54-56). On theother hand, Australia scores low in this context which suggests that the structure of theorganisations are flat in Australia and subordinates can reach up to managers with convenience. The next element is individualism that deals with degree of interdependence of the members inthe society on each other. In terms of being individualism, Australia is the country that scoresvery high on this. This suggests that the people in Australia expected to care for themselves ortheir immediate family. In organisations, employees are self-reliant. Singapore in this contextscores very low and this justifies that the society is collectivist in Singapore. The people believein “we” and not in “I” (Soares, et al. 2007, 277-284).
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