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Organizational Change Management 1Impact of country’s culture in use of power to initiate change programChange management refers to the framework which is used by managers to identify the changepresent in the organization and rectify them. Power is an important factor which helps themanager to apply change in an organization. The aim of below mentioned paper is to analyze andevaluate the cultural dimensions of two countries namely Singapore and Australia. It alsoexplains the influence of such culture on the French and Raven Five bases of power. The latterpart of the paper tells about how the use of power would be effective and ineffective in anorganization change program depending on the culture of a particular country. Further, power refers to an important tool which helps the manger to initiate their decisions in anorganization. Without power, no manager can ask the employees to work according to theirdirection. Also, it should be noted that power is not present with all; instead it is divided on thebasis of responsibility and authority assigned to them. Relating the power with the hofstede’sdimension, it should be noted that the cultural dimension model explains the cultural features ofthe people of the country which helps in analyzing which should be used by them (Bélanger, et.al., 2016, 287-300). There are specifically six dimensions in the model that are, power distance,individualism, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation, indulgence and lastly masculinity.Further, it should be noted that there is presence of diversity in the country Singapore as there are77% of Chinese, 15% of Malay, 6% of Indians and lastly 2% of other expatriate society. And onthe other hand, the country Australia has majority of people who belong to British community(67%) and it has presence of some European culture within them and only 2% of aboriginalnatives are present in the country (Chua, Roy, Yannig Roth, and Jean-François Lemoine 2015,189-227). The first dimension that is power distance talks about the degree to which less powerful memberof the society are drifted or motivated with the more powerful member of the society. It talksabout the ways in which power is distributed unequally and how people handle such inequality inthe society. In the country Singapore, people are more dependent on their superior in the society,so there is very low degree of power distance in the society. People do not take any decisionthemselves; employees in the organization are more dependent on their manager to take actions.As the Chinese people believe in the Confucian teaching due to which a large segment of thesociety initiate such activities in the environment (Ferraro, Gary and Elizabeth Briody 2017).

Organizational Change Management 2Whereas, on the other hand, people of Australia have a relatively high degree of power distanceattribute under them. They do not prefer seeking permission of someone to take actions. Alsothere is presence of flat organizational structure which motivates the employees to takeresponsibility and initiate actions for the betterment of the company. The second dimension thatis individualism versus collectivism tells about the degree of which people of a country want tonurture themselves and their immediate families. Collectivism talks about the attribute to whichpeople want to take of themselves and their relatives in the society and become whole heartedlyresponsible for their wellbeing and wellness. The loosely knit group in the society tells about thebelief of people in used the feeling of ‘I’ and the tightly knit group represents the feeling of ‘WE’(Yeo, Su Lin, and Augustine Pang 2017, 112-122). Talking about the culture it should be notedthat the people of this country score a low grade, as there love taking care of their extendedfamilies and depending on each other for existence. Whereas, in the country Australia, people aredeeply connected to each other, they only take care of themselves and their immediate family.They have a strong feeling of individualism under them and they prefer being independent at theworkplace and in personal life as well (Stone, Dianna and Diana Deadrick 2015, 139-145).Further, masculinity versus femininity refers to the dimension those talks about the acceptance ofpeople for the monetary benefits and heroism in the society. Whereas, femininity in the societyrepresents act of modesty in the society, it talks about the qualitative growth of a person in thesociety and masculinity talks about quantitative growth in the society. The country Singapore inthis case falls under category of femininity (Aiello, et. al., 2018). The society is little moreinclined towards femininity in this case as the score is 48. Whereas Australia scores 61 in thisdimension which talks about their dominance in the society. This aspect also talks about the fightbetween tough and tender. So, it should be noted that people of Australia have strong belief inworking shoulder to shoulder in the market. Further, uncertainty avoidance refers to the degree towhich people in a society manages to with the future coming problems. It talks about the ways inwhich people reacts on unknown situations coming on their way. Singapore in case ofuncertainty avoidance scores 8 whereas 51 are scored by Australia. The score of Singapore tellsthat the people respects the rules and regulations and aims to avoid the problems by complyingthem. Whereas, in the case of Australia, the country do not follow all the rules instead the onlyfollow the ones that they think are important (Todnem By, Rune 2005, 369-380). Long termorientation versus short term normative orientation talks about the ways in which people initiate

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