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Organization Design and Development

Learning Outcome 1: Describe the basic steps of the organizational development process.
Learning Outcome 2: Evaluate the strategic role of change in the organization and its impact on organizational performance.
Learning Outcome 3: Analyze the human, structural and strategic dimensions of organizational development.
Learning Outcome 4: Analyse the ethical issues of the organizational development processes.

Assignment

Read the case Lincoln Hospital: Third Party Intervention from book Organization Development and Change by Cummings. take notes on the diagnosis and intervention stages for this case and answer the following questions:

Question 1. If you had been called by Lincoln's president to help resolve the problems described in the case, how would you have carried out the contracting and diagnosis stages?

Question 2. What would you have done differently than what the OD consultant did?

Question 3. Do you think that the third-party intervention is an appropriate intervention in this case? Why?

Question 4. What are some other OD interventions that can be appropriate in this case? Why?

Question 5. How effective was the third-party intervention? And evaluate its impact.