Organizational Development Theory. Management Essay

You will choose “a case” (possibly your current or previous work) to analyze it through the lens of appropriate OD theory。
Write about your workplace, you acting as the OD consultant for an organizational change there. Some ideas: Abuse of overtime at work, lack of motivation in a workgroup, absenteeism/presenteeism, team building, succession planning, production not meeting goals, competition, etc. I prefer the issue to be as real as possible from your actual work experience. It is important to imagine yourself either as an internal or external OD practitioner/consultant, even though you do not need to actually interview anyone for the project. You are welcome to use creative ideas and write imaginary responses in your diagnostic stage, e.g. manager A says that absenteeism is due to X, and manager B says it is due to Y, and manager C says it is due to Z, etc. It is important to consider multiple “imaginary” people to gather your diagnostic work.

You will choose “a case” (possibly your current or previous work) to analyze it through the lens of appropriate OD theory。

Write about your workplace, you acting as the OD consultant for an organizational change there. Some ideas: Abuse of overtime at work, lack of motivation in a work group, absenteeism/presenteeism, team building, succession planning, production not meeting goals, competition, etc. I prefer the issue to be as real as possible from your actual work experience. It is important to imagine yourself either as an internal or external OD practitioner/consultant, even though you do not need to actually interview anyone for the project. You are welcome to use creative ideas and write imaginary responses in your diagnostic stage, e.g. manager A says that absenteeism is due to X, and manager B says it is due to Y, and manager C says it is due to Z, etc. It is important to consider multiple “imaginary” people to gather your diagnostic work from.

I would like you to consider issues discussed in class, such as:

- Entering and contracting (as either internal or external practitioner).

- How do you go about collecting data? E.g. interviews, surveys, observation, etc.

- Diagnosing the problem/case framed by Open Systems Model, taking into account if your diagnostic model functions on Organizational-Level, or Group Level, or Individual Level (use an OD theory!).

- How will you analyze data? E.g. quantitative or qualitative data.

- How will you share your feedback with the work group affected by

You will choose “a case” (possibly your current or previous work) to analyze it through the lens of appropriate OD theory。

Write about your workplace, you acting as the OD consultant for an organizational change there. Some ideas: Abuse of overtime at work, lack of motivation in a work group, absenteeism/presenteeism, team building, succession planning, production not meeting goals, competition, etc. I prefer the issue to be as real as possible from your actual work experience. It is important to imagine yourself either as an internal or external OD practitioner/consultant, even though you do not need to actually interview anyone for the project. You are welcome to use creative ideas and write imaginary responses in your diagnostic stage, e.g. manager A says that absenteeism is due to X, and manager B says it is due to Y, and manager C says it is due to Z, etc. It is important to consider multiple “imaginary” people to gather your diagnostic work from.

I would like you to consider issues discussed in class, such as:

- Entering and contracting (as either internal or external practitioner).

- How do you go about collecting data? E.g. interviews, surveys, observation, etc.

- Diagnosing the problem/case framed by Open Systems Model, taking into account if your diagnostic model functions on Organizational-Level, or Group Level, or Individual Level (use an OD theory!).

- How will you analyze data? E.g. quantitative or qualitative data.

- How will you share your feedback with the work group affected by