Culture: The Key to Shifting Your Organization During Post-Pandemic

Abstract

Organizations are facing challenges and obstacles caused by COVID-19. After widespread vaccines, lifestyle became normal and entered the post-pandemic era. Organizational culture is the key that organizations shift during the post-pandemic. In this article, there are three recommendations that the organization can think of to make cultural changes effectively. First, the organization needs to assess and diagnose if it is an agile organization. Second, Lewin’s change model and the MCR framework can help the organization manage the changing process. Last, leadership is the key to ensuring the change is in the right direction. The leadership discussion focuses on evolutionary leadership and situational leadership in the changing process. COVID-19 will not be the last crisis that changes the environment. Thus, organizations need to learn how to become agile and future-focused organizations.