Förändringsledning : Att utveckla människor för att förbättra systemet

Sammanfattning: That an organization lacks a good company culture can have different causes. Many researchers have investigated whether the individual's sense of adding value affects the organization's atmosphere and more modern approaches demonstrate that future competitiveness is affected by the individual’s evolvement rather than the system's technical development. In the small company Ztift AB the management stood at a crossroad where the company's future could hang on company culture. The purpose of this work is to investigate how the small organization reacts and change through an interactive study of the impact by the introduction of a kaizen tool. The employees were observed and their reactions were noted, especially when they got involved in, started taking initiatives and became a driving force of the process. The study was done with questions off issue about the difficulties companies need to tackle in an organizational change and if there is a theoretical foundation that supports the development that occurs in the company. In addition, the work reflects on whether the change in a small business can be different from a large company, both on an organizational level, but also at the individual level, where the result of staff involvement and commitment are analysed. The result shows that the theoretical basis available for organizational change also corresponds to the small organization, but some distinctive characteristics is that change in the small organization becomes more directly tangible and easily integrated into the business. The result means that it is beneficial to implement change in the small organization considering the future and the vision to increase in size and profit. Ergo, having a beneficial company culture from scratch provides all the conditions to succeed in keeping it, as the company evolves.