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For instance, some organizations prize the inclusion of their employees in all aspects of operations, while other organizations have a top-down approach to management. Creating a plan without taking this cultural background into context can be problematic for the success of a change initiative.

• Search the virtual library to find
  scholarly articles relative to change initiatives which apply to an
  organization in Saudi Arabia.
• Consider the impact on the individuals concerned and the impacts on the organization.
• Assess the cultural elements that you
  believe may impact the development of change strategies and
  implementation of change plans.
• Discuss the challenges the change initiative had to the organization.
• Develop a strategy that the organization could use to mitigate the challenges.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 4-5 pages in length, which does not
  include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of
  the content minimum requirements.
• Use academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles
• Abass, G., Asery, A., Al-Tannir, M., Heena, H., AlFayyad, I., & Al-Badr, A. (2018). Organizational culture at a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia: A mixed approach study. Cureus, 10(12), e3736.
• Schmiedel, T., Müller, O., & vom Brocke, J. (2019). Topic
  modeling as a strategy of inquiry in organizational research: A
  tutorial with an application example on organizational culture. Organizational Research Methods, 22(4), 941.
• Cawsey, T. F., Deszca, G., & Ingols, C. (2020). Organizational change: An action-oriented toolkit(4thed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing. ISBN-13: 9781544351407 ( my textbook )
• Jarzabkowski, P., Lê, J., & Balogun, J. (2019). The social practice of coevolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change. Academy of Management Journal, (15), 62(3), 850–882.
• Waeger, D., & Weber, K. (2019). Institutional complexity and organizational change: An open policy perspective. Academy of Management Review, 44(2), 336–359.