Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal: Organizational Culture and Readiness

Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal: Organizational Culture and Readiness

Change is a complex process that can cause conflicts when not handled properly. As change agents, we are required to assess the organization’s readiness for change before taking the initiative to implement change. In this regard, there are various tools that could be used to facilitate the assessment of an organization’s readiness to change. The purpose of this paper will be to give a detailed description and assessment of an organization’s readiness to implement a community-based quality improvement initiative.

Organization Culture

The current organizational culture is based on a value system, with cultural centeredness, customer focus, and stewardship being some of the core values. The organization currently embraces a clan culture where teamwork is highly valued when conducting different organizational activities, more so given that most of the activities are community-based.

The current leadership style being embraced within the facility is a transformational leadership style, which is a leadership style characterized by empowerment of followers to be active participants in the change. Transformational leaders are usually open to new changes within the organization and have the ability to inspire member participation in the process (Doody & Doody, 2012).

As is currently, there is a high level of collaboration among employees. According to Willgerodt et al. (2020), embracing interprofessional collaborative practice is an essential facet to implementing change successfully within the organization. Given that the organization has also been conducting other quality improvement interventions, the employees are quite receptive to prospects of implementing change initiatives. However, further analysis on stakeholders is crucial to ascertain organizational readiness for change.