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Modern organizations operate in dynamic environment. Strategic managers and the OD practitioners are continuously seeking the ways to fit their organizations with the rapidly paced environment. In recent years the concept of learning organizations emerged and is widely using in organizations all over the world. All the development is associated with certain hurdles. The main hurdle that most of the organizations are facing nowadays is the culture of the organization. Development of the supporting learning culture is the main task of the management because the culture is considered to be the main effective item associated with any change or development in the organization. Factors that can hinder any development/ change in organizations are the cultural changes which include the lack of staff support, influences of the externals to the organization, complexities of the approaches used to manage the change and inappropriate leadership etc. performance of the organization is also associated with the cultural of the organizations. So the cultural change is very important for the growth, performance and development of the organizations. Being the students of the organizational development what you perceive about the given problems and what will you suggest in the given scenario by answering the following questions.

1. Cultural change is preferred in changing environment. What do you think that this change must be applied on the top management or the lower staff and management? Demonstrate in which case it will be more effective?

2. Evaluate how the cultural change can be associated with the performance, although most of the members of the organization resist change.

3. Organizational change needs a lot of resources, efforts and time to implement. It may cause a short-term decline of sale and low profitability which is a severe condition for any organization. Besides of these devastating effects, asses what in your opinion such change is beneficial for the organization in the short-term and longterm?