to bring behaverioul changes in the old lesser educated staf

Hi to all senior HR proffesionals,

Dear Sir(s)

We are a developing real estate and infrastructure company of Gujarat, over a period of time we have grown from 15 people organization to almost 400 people organization including engineers and other staffs.

Our major concern is to bring behavrioul changes in some of our old staffs who are with us since our inceptions many of them are not very educated but are knowledgeble and capable on the basis of their experience and many of them enjoys a high degree of faith with our directors, many of the times it is observed that they resist any move towards creating a more proffessional and transparent organziation. There way of natural behaviour within the organzation and with some of our suppliers/customers and other stake holders are not civilzed in many ways. We cannot remove them from our organization, neither we can accepth theirs present way of behaviour, we wish to bring change in their vision for the company and for themselves, we wish them to be more civilized, disciplined, understanding, knowledgeable and proactive in introducing modern management practices in the company.

can anyone suggest the methodology to do it without disturbing their personal egos and general working environment in the company.

please advice me.

regards,
paulik.desai -
Rajhans group, Surat.

this is a very difficult OD interevention..actually ther is nobody who will know the answer to your question as only u know ur people better.

You need to be a change agent and know all the principles of change management.
few things to consider:

create an awareness about the outside world
create an awareness about the way ur org behaves vis-a-vis other organisations.
making them aware about the way they actuallly behave..like do they keep tobacco/pan in their mouths during a meetign with client??
give them education about some finer things in life...very delicately create a feeling amongst them that they are not wat they shud be actually
dont roll out this program like a bulldozer..spread it over longer, and i mean really really longer duration of time.Hurry Burry spoils the Curry !!
most important: Never hurt them, dont treat them in an inferior manner...

these are the few points...others plz add !!

rgds

nikhil
+91 98922 42767

thanks nikhil, you have provided a good direction, but i still needed a specifically a methodology - i mean a step by step methodology to develop actual behavarioul changes...anyway.. u have provided a good direction