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Assignment: Organization Design and Development
Learning Outcomes:
A. Describe the basic steps of the organizational development process.
B. Evaluate the strategic role of change in the organization and its impact on organizational performance.
C. Analyze the human, structural and strategic dimensions of the organizational development.
D. Analyze the ethical issues of the organizational development processes.
Section 1: Case Study
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 A. 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 B. What would you have done differently than what the OD consultant did?
Question C. Do you think that the third-party intervention is an appropriate intervention in this case? Why?
Question D. What are some other OD interventions that can be appropriate in this case? Why?
Question E. How effective was the third-party intervention? And evaluate its impact.
Section 2: Discussion Questions
Briefly discuss the following questions the (150 - 200 words for each question):
Question A. Why Change is important in an organization?
Question B. What are some events that can occur in the internal or external environment of the organization and can trigger the need for change in strategy, structure, culture or processes of the organization? Provide examples.
Question C. Discuss the key benefits of Organization Development and how OD can contribute to improving the organizational effectiveness (Provide Examples).
Question D. The role of Change Agent and describe the competencies
Question E. required for aChange Agent to be effective and successful.
Question F. Explain the role of OD practitioners and describe the competencies required for an OD practitioner to be effective and successful.