The Importance Of Ethical, Cultural, And Professional Relationships When Implementing Organizational Change

Organizations experience many changes as they grow and evolve. Implementing change in nations like Saudi Arabia can pose many challenges especially when improper techniques are used. This makes ethical, cultural as well as professional relationships very important. For instance, the Saudi Arabian cultural settings mean the success or failure of change programs. For an organization to survive and succeed in Saudi Arabia, it should align its organizational culture with the Saudi Arabian culture failure to which would spell disaster. The Saudi Arabian culture can be seen in terms of power distance, individualism, masculinity, as well as uncertainty avoidance. These factors provide vital information in terms of employee behavior, which directly leads to insights on not only enhancing but also improving the effectiveness of the proposed organizational changes (Kulik, 2005). As such, culture becomes very important during change as its dimensions can be manipulated to the organizations advantage which is possible by matching the company options as well as approaches to the culture. For effective change, culture must be combined with important factors such as professional relationships and ethical issues. Professional relationships play a major role in ensuring effective organizational change. Professional relationships are cultivated by trust, respect, and teamwork. Positive