Culture and Leadership: The process that a senior leadership team would use to create a new culture

Culture and Leadership
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Institution
Every organization has an organizational culture that guides how members of the organization behave and relate to each other. Thus, organizational cultures vary from one organization to another because each culture is unique to the organization. The type of organizational culture is dependent on the leadership. According to Cannaday (1997), organizational leaders are responsible for establishing an organizational culture that effectively promotes organizational success. This essay aims to discuss the process that senior leaders can follow to create a new culture between two organizations in the same industry but in different countries.
The first step would be to understand the culture of each company. As Leland (n.d.) indicates, a company's culture is informed by both the internal and external environment in which the company operates. The external environment consists of the economic, cultural, political, social, legal, and technological factors. These factors are unique to each country, and as such, leaders need to understand them and how they influence each company's culture. The internal environment consists of internal beliefs and norms that have been instituted by the leaders (Leland, n.d.). Once the senior leadership team understands how the external and internal environment influences each company's culture, they can establish how to align the new culture between the two companies with their respective internal and external environments.
The second step would be to establish a value system and prioritize the values. What new culture do you want these two companies to have? What values, beliefs, assumptions, and norms do the leaders want to be shared between the two companies? Tharp (n.d.) refers to these as the invisible aspects of the culture. The leadership team should communicate these values to other members of the organization and lead by example. For instance, if the new culture involves open and honest communication, the top leaders should communicate this to the employees and lead by exam...