Organizational Culture Change: Growth Mindset, Positive Psychology, and Empowerment

Abstract

Organizations are like individuals; they are unique entities with their own identity and cultural set of values. In the pursuit of originality, innovation, and effectiveness, a healthy organization has to accommodate individuals that are simultaneously team players and individual thinkers. It is important to realize that the organization’s culture is the result of a sum of what various individuals share between themselves and with whom they also share common identities in a mix of physiological, cognitive, emotional, social, relational, and spiritual dimensions. It is of particular interest to study how we can develop an organizational culture with a growth mindset of independent thinking, where cultural change is a continuous evolving process that is change ready and adaptive. The spiritual dimension is crucial during cultural change because it helps cope with stress and makes sense of the understanding of how an individual and the organizational identity influence each other. It is crucial that the organization, in order to develop a culture of change, embraces an authentic friendly environment allowing aspects of forgiveness and recognition to create a family perception and reassure the emotional and spiritual well-being of the individuals.