Cultural configuration and immunity to

change

Raj Kumar Bhattarai

Nepal Commerce Campus

Tribhuvan University

Raj.bhattarai@outlook.com

Problem

There is change.

What is the change?

People response to the change.

How do they response?

There are moderators to the change response.

What are the moderators?

Objectives

Determine the nature and type of change

Classify the response to the change

Find the moderator to the change response

Method

Case studies (change initiatives)

Observations (behavioral patterns)

Interviews (opinion leaders)

Discourses (values, beliefs, and attitudes)

Nature of change

Never ending process

(change after change)

Beginning after ending

(discontinuation of the existing)

Escalation for continuation

(commitment to the beginning)

Types of change

No change (maintaining status quo)

Mutational change (change IN: achieving partial / gradual change)

Transformational change (change OF: accomplishing complete / transformational change)

Immunity to change

Innate/inborn immunity to change(inherited from the birth, committed to its own identity/ideas and possibility of non-adoption)

Ascribed/acquired immunity to change(learned over time, targeted to specific intruders / invaders and possibility of adoption in order to defend)

Immune response

Avoidance to change

Resistance to change

Tolerance to change

Acceptance to change

Cultural configurationWorking patterns (emphasis on work or worth?)

Events and festivals (choice of leisure and pleasure?) about 341

events including 173 festivals

Etiquette and manner (socially correct/polite behavior?)

Tradition and rituals (from before birth to after death requirements?)

Preferred time and situation (timing: tithi, lagan, and muhurta?)

Learning and wisdom (educated and uneducated are different?)

Foods and taste (physical, social, and spiritual satisfaction?)

Events and festivals

Time and situation

Rituals and tradition

Foods and taste

Learning and

wisdom

Working patterns

Etiquette and manner

Cultural Configuration

Conclusion

Cultural configuration as a moderator / regulator to the change responseAs stronger the cultural configuration as stronger the immunity to changeCompatible cultural configuration for comfortable change management

Questions please

Thanks