Chapter 5 Organizational Development and Change Chapter Overview The organizational development (OD) tradition is a practitioner-driven intervention-oriented approach to effecting organizational change via individual change‚ with view to increasing effectiveness. It is implemented within a problem-solving model‚ places a heavy accent on survey-based problem diagnosis and subordinates people to a vision of the future. Commitment-based strategies of effecting change assume that the impetus for change must
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A Decade of Organizational Change at UNILEVER Unilever is an Anglo–Dutch multinational consumer goods company. Its products include foods‚ beverages‚ cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world ’s third-largest consumer goods company measured by 2011 revenues and the world ’s largest maker of ice cream. Unilever is a complex organization. Unilever has two holding companies: Unilever PLC‚ which has its registered office at Port Sunlight in Merseyside‚ United Kingdom and its head
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Organizational Behavior and the Failure of Enron Germaine Washington LDR/531 February 13‚ 2012 James Kaczynski Organizational Design and the Failure of Enron This is an analysis of how the application of specific organizational-behavior theories could have predicted the failure of Enron. Although there are many types of core topics of organizational behavior‚ the focus of this study will be on how leader behavior and power‚ and motivation contributed to the bankruptcy of Enron. In addition
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TERM PAPER ON ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES AND CHANGE AMAL ALTAF MOHAMMAD ALI JINNAH UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to summarize several strategies and describe how these strategies can help bring about changes in an organization. The authors show how different strategies can be used for successful implementation of change process. The article compares the four level strategies‚ namely functional level strategy‚ business level strategy‚ corporate level strategy and
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Managing Organisational Change product: 4286 | course code: c206|c306 Managing Organisational Change Centre for Financial and Management Studies‚ SOAS‚ University of London First published 2006‚ 2007‚ 2010‚ revised 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this course material may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic‚ mechanical‚ or other means‚ including photocopying and recording‚ or in information storage or retrieval systems‚ without written permission from
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The causes of resistance to organizational change The role of the individual in and the contribution of the change agent to the occurrence of resistance during change processes. The causes of resistance to organizational change The role of the individual in and the contribution of the change agent to the occurrence of resistance during change processes. Master Thesis Name: Studentnumber: Date: Myrna van Engelen 1941623 6th of October‚ 2010 Business Administration – Management Consulting
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The Phases in the Organizational Change Process Janet E Perez HCS/587 October 14‚ 2013 Margaret Walker The Phases in the Organizational Change Process Spector (2010) stated “organizational change is typically initiated in response to a trigger event or a shift in the environment that precipitates a need for altered strategies and new patterns of employee behavior” (p.18). According to Spector (2010)‚ to understand and analyze the
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Organization’s Culture Change Management Organizations are made up of people and their relationships with each one in turn. Changes in procedure‚ structure‚ advances‚ and items don ’t happen on their own‚ and changes in any of these regions include changes in individuals also. Representatives must figure out how to utilize new advances‚ or market new items‚ or work viably in a group based structure. Sometimes achieving a new way of thinking requires a focused change in the underlying corporate
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Organizational Change Plan Tara Parker University of Phoenix Creating Change within Organizations HCS/587 Georgetta Baptist September 02‚ 2013 Organizational Change Plan Change is unavoidable. The need for organizational changes is the result of various factors. Changes in all aspects of healthcare in the past and currently are the result of continued decreases in reimbursement‚ advances in technology‚ and new or changes in government mandates. The focus in health care has shifted toward
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Vision 2011: Rough Draft Angelina Helling Tak Shing Hung Andrew Macharia Claire MacLennan BA544: Organizational and Management Theories December 4‚ 2011 Dr. Rhonda Polak Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain why reframing can be so important to a business. In today’s world‚ businesses must stay on top of the competition and in touch with the ever-changing world of technology. Over time‚ a business can become stagnant‚ may be running on cruise-control or run out of new ideas
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