HR07 Managing Change through Organisational Development
Assignment No.I
Assignment Code: 2013HR07A1 Last Date of Submission: 15th April 2013 Maximum Marks:100
Attempt all the questions. All the questions are compulsory and carry equal marks.
Section-A Ques. 1 Explain underlying values and assumptions of OD? Can OD cope with the challenge of managing radical change?
Ques. 2 Is the Action Research model of planned change better than Lewin’s changed model? Justify your stand vis-à-vis the short comings of planned change.
Ques. 3 OD interventions need to be well planned and structured to promote learning and change. What factors should OD practitioners consider while structuring their interventions?
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Improving skills is never a waste of time. It is amazing how fast the industry can change. Skills that you obtain and thought you would never use, can be the only reason you have a job tomorrow.
“Workers today must do whatever it takes to get the training needed to keep their jobs. Some of the things you could do include going back to school, or changing companies to get the necessary training. Very few companies spend the time and money needed to give workers all the training they need. Everybody must realize that they must stay current or they will be left behind.
“In the last year alone the market for designers with PDS training has grown so fast they companies can no longer be assured of having an adequate work pool to draw from. They pay scale has expanded rapidly and is still growing. A good friend of mine has recently quit his present job for a 35 percent pay increase. Another company has lost many of its 10-year-plus employees to huge salary offers. Workers with the needed skills now have a lot of options. They can(for the most part) pick the company they want, by location, benefits, permanent staff, or contract. They currently have a lot of leverage. Workers without those skills have very limited choices because they do not add value to their companies.”
Questions
1. Is J.D. concerned more with job security or career security ? Discuss. 2. Do you agree with J.D.’s statement that “improving your skills is never a waste of time,”
Practice is beneficial only if the person genuinely is interested in what they are doing. Raymond T. Hightower, president of WisdomGroup software company states, “The elite don’t just work harder than everybody else. At some point the elites fall in love with practice to the point where they want to do little else.” Those people
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson once sad " Unless you try something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow". On past experiences in my life I would agree with Emerson because one will never truly master something but people everyday have said people have mastered a sport or a instrument but everyday that person practices on that one thing all the time. Look at some great sports players like Messi or Stephen Curry both are spectacular at what they do. Messi was looked at by many people when he was young at not able to play due to how short and small he was. He started to practice on end to help him get to a point where a small soccer team picked him up and play for them at this point he wasn't done so he got even better and now competes with some of the other worlds best
Practice can be the key to improving. In every area of education, in every sport, with every musical activity, anything that requires a good performance, those who practice tend to understand the material more. Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers states just how important this can be. Going off of the idea that “practice makes perfect”, his entire second chapter is dedicated to persuading his audience to believe 10,000 hours is what it takes to succeed. Examples Gladwell provides include how Mozart didn’t create his greatest works until later in his life after he had gained experience, how the Beatles performed in multiple practice concerts in Hamburg, Germany before becoming musical sensations, and how Bobby Fischer and chess grandmasters
Many paths to success can be taken, however spending 10,000 hours practicing in order to hone your skill might not be enough though.
Although, it had not come to my mind until those last two years of high school that all this practice work that I focused on and put all my energy towards was to strengthen my skills. The skills that will be carried along with me towards my success in the future. Being able to learn these methods of skill at an earlier age would have made my life a whole lot simpler.
Reinforcement: Encourage staffs to take initiatives and make the required contributions. Apply inclusive workplace culture to empower staffs to lead and manage decision.
‘For people to consider improving their skills, they need to be aware of and motivated by the benefits of doing so. They must see a link between skills development and achieving their own personal ambitions’ (Leitch Review of Skills Final Report, 2006).
I believe that in order to be great at a specific task it takes a lot of training and experience. I have been working in the healthcare industry for over 10 years and continue to seek continued improvement. Changes happen daily and the more knowledge that I have the better I will be at my career. I also
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He laments the loss of thousands of jobs and foretells of an economic collapse as jobs grow stagnant. Berman predicted, correctly, that low skilled jobs would never return in demand, and that the economic security of all low skilled workers was at risk. And that high skilled jobs would become the new standard. We are rapidly approaching a time in which an average worker is an unemployed worker. A vast array of skillsets and creativity will become the new base requirements for even the most minimalistic of
Many companies emphasize a culture of continuous improvement. While never being satisfied with the status quo can drive
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In this dynamic business environment, change is inevitable. Changes can be planned, or unintentional: depending on the driving forces behind. The major forces for change can be derived from the nature of the workforce, technology, economic shocks, competition, social trends, and world politics (Robbins & Judge, 2011). In this post the author will explain the Kotter’s eight –step approaches to managing organizational change and discuss how his company handles the planned changes in term of organization reconstruction.
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