Reference no: EM132343399
You are the newly appointed director of the Agile County Airport System. The characteristics of your organization include:
It is a Local Government Department
Consists of 4 Airports - International, Mather, Executive, Franklin Field
There are 400 employees at all four airports
The airport board of directors has decided to move to an Agile Lean process for all projects.
You quickly recognize that you need to undertake a cultural transformation in order for the Agile Lean process to take hold. The current organization has the following culture characteristics:
No Mission Statement
No Sense of Direction
Militaristic/Top-Down Leadership Model
No Accountability
No Communication
Staff focused on Empire Building
Organization Viewed Itself as Regulators
Focused on catching people doing something wrong
Publicly Belittled
Focus on "Turf"
Process Oriented
Problem Oriented
Growth Without a Long-Term Plan
Employees Not Engaged
Staff consists mostly of generalists
The board of directors has asked you to prepare an overview presentation for their next meeting on your ideas for a organizational culture transformation plan. To complete this assignment you are to design a 5 to 10 slide PowerPoint presentation with notes, that addresses the following key elements:
What makes up organizational culture?
What do you see as the benefits of a culture transformation
What would your Culture Transformation Plan consist of? Describe the high level steps you would take to accomplish this transformation.
What questions would you ask to help in defining a new culture?
What characteristics would you envision the "new" organizational culture to exhibit? Develop a list based upon the current organizational culture.