Transforming Organizational Culture through Strategic Planning; A Cast Study

In the absence of a strategic plan, the organizational culture tends to follow traditional paths. A comprehensive, well thought-out strategic plan can help alter that path by focusing the energies of the members toward a sat of common goals. To examine the efforts of an organization to inculcate a strategic plan requires integration of dynamic, multi-faceted data best achieved through case study research. This is especially true for an organization that embodies a transient population founded on traditional values, goals, and crisis management. Analyzing the affect of transitional leadership and strategic planning on organizational culture following the plans approval, retirement of the Commanding Officer, and the departure of other leaders in top management is achieved through use of historical documentation, surveys, interviews of top management and observations. Does the loss of senior officers knowledgeable in the strategic planning process and proactive in educating and empowering subordinates to achieve the ratified goals negatively impact strategic planning implementation Findings suggest that it does. However, even with an increase in external demands, they also reflect the continuity provided by the remaining leaders. Though progress in implementing the strategic plan slowed, the fresh, innovative ideas of the new management team revitalized efforts to realign the TQL structure with the strategic plan.