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Assignment: Organizational Performance & Culture in Practice
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the organization structure in your organization (or an organization with which you are familiar) and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of one other organization structure. Within the evaluation, you should include the reasons underpinning the structure.
Analyze connections between your organization's strategy (or an organization with which you are familiar) and its products or services, and customers.
1. Analyze three external factors or trends currently impacting your organization (or one with which you are familiar). The impact of these factors or trends could be positive, neutral or negative; some are short-lived whilst others are long-lasting. Identify organizational priorities arising from the factors or trends analyzed.
2. When setting out its view on automation, AI and technology, the CIPD states, ‘Automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and other workplace technologies are bringing major changes to work and employment.' Assess the scale of technology within organizations and how it impacts work.
3. Explain Edgar Schein's model of organizational culture and explain one theory or model which examines human behavior.
4. Assess how people practices in your organization (or one with which you are familiar) impact both on organizational culture and behavior, drawing on examples to support your arguments.
5. Peter Cheese, current CEO of CIPD asserts, ‘People professionals are a vital function in supporting businesses to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. Explain two different models or theories to managing change.
6. A variety of models have been developed to explain how change is experienced. Discuss one model that explains how change is experienced.
7. The CIPD's Health and wellbeing at work survey 2022 found, ‘There is less management focus on health and wellbeing compared with the first year of the pandemic' and goes on to remark that this is disappointing. Assess the importance of wellbeing at work and factors which impact wellbeing.
8. The CIPD Profession Map states ‘People practices are the processes and approaches that we use across the employee lifecycle'. Discuss the links between the employee lifecycle and different people practice roles.
9. Analyze how people practice connects with other areas of an organization and supports wider people and organizational strategies.
10. Discuss processes you have, or could use, for consulting and engaging with internal customers of the people function in order to understand their needs.