Organizational Development

1 Identify the factors that impact on outcomes and life chances for children and young people:

There are difficulties and challenges on how to facilitate and what tools to use to resolve the determinants of health such as

D2- Compare the effectiveness of organisational approaches to a national or international approaches to a national or international environment health issues.

There are also general socio-economic, cultural, and environmental conditions to be considered when taking a holistic approach to health promotion, since having only

Organizations must respond to their internal and external environment. Therefore, organizational success heavily relies on leaderships ability to manage change. Unfortunately, many leaders struggle to effectively lead change initiatives. In fact, Ashkenas (2013, para. 1) reported 60 – 70% of organizational change initiatives fail to meet their objectives.

The first step in driving the necessary change within the organization is to secure an outside consultant to serve as a change agent. The change agent will facilitate and guide the organizational development (OD) through process consultation intervention. In this process, it will be necessary to identify sources of resistance through Force field analysis. Once the sources are identified, one-on-one meetings and group meetings will be conducted to educate the employees on the changes and the reasons why change is necessary. This step will find the management team working to re-define the vision of the organization. As part of

Organized Change Consultancy. (2010). Re-engineering and TQM: Approaches to Organizational Change . Available: http://www.organizedchange.com/village.htm. Last accessed 2nd January 2014.

1. Diagnose the problem. 2. Assess the motivation and capacity for change. 3. Assess the resources and motivation of the change agent. This includes the change agent’s commitment to change, power, and stamina. 4. Choose progressive change objects. In this step, action plans are developed and strategies are established. 5. The role of the change agents should be selected and clearly understood by all parties so that expectations are clear. Examples of roles are: cheerleader, facilitator, and expert. 6. Maintain the change. Communication, feedback, and group coordination are essential elements in this step

Week 3, the lecture on Managing Change describes organizational changes that occur when a company makes a shift from its current state to some preferred future state. Managing organizational change is the process of planning and implementing change in organizations in such a way as to decrease employee resistance and cost to the organization while concurrently expanding the effectiveness of the change effort. Today's business environment requires companies to undergo changes almost constantly if they are to remain competitive. Students of organizational change identify areas of change in order to analyze them. A manager trying to implement a change, no matter how small, should expect to encounter some resistance from within the organization.

I. Open with impact: One in every one hundred people are affected by OCPD. Even more are

* Project and programme management skills to ensure change initiatives are completed both on time and to budget.

In order to have a successful outcome to occur from an organizational development intervention the organization must be acceptable of change. The organization’s readiness must be evaluated. To evaluate the readiness for change a combination of three different measures will need to be implemented, which are observation, surveys, and interviews

Organization Development (OD) is a deliberately planned, organization-wide effort to increase an organization's effectiveness and/or efficiency, and/or to enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals (2015, Wikipedia).

After anticipating a need for change, it is necessary for the OD practitioner to enter the system in order to develop a relationship with the client. The relationship is important because it is contingent upon the accomplishment or disappointment of the OD program. The practitioner aim is to initiate open

Organizational development (OD) is an application or process of building a greater level of efficiency within the organization. OD develops the ongoing effort geared for long-term effects. OD works to help management and employees on a variety of levels. Organizational development is perhaps unequaled in its ability to meet any type of organization needs. However, the solutions developed from the role of OD may not be necessarily interchangeable with different organizations (Grant, 2010).