his competitive edge. In addressing the OD process, the CEO and management team has decided that the organization will be utilizing the five-stage model of the total organizational development process. The steps are implemented in a sequence of one another increasing the probability of a successful change (Brown, 2011).
The first stage is anticipating a need for a change. The CEO and the management team after a long meeting have decided that there is a need for a change. The team was established to increase communication, collaboration and cohesiveness between the units to make them more industrious and operational. The reason is that the company is in a state of volatility and needs development. The current condition of the organization is directly related to the loss of profit, employee disengagement, and poor management performance. So the question becomes how do the team work with the OD consultant to determine the type of change strategy to use?
The second stage is to create the practitioner and client relationship, which involves clarifying the characteristics of the organization current functions and issues to be addressed. An external OD practitioner from Bain and Co. was invited in by Mr. Manning to initiate the OD program. Upon meeting the specialist, the self-managed team (CEO and Management Team) gathered information about the practitioner’s competence and experience. On the contrary, the OD practitioner conducted a survey on the self-managed team. The
The Family Health Center is a clinic that is under the umbrella of Bear Valley Community Hospital, a small rural hospital. The hospital is located in a ski resort town in the mountains above San Bernardino County. The next closest medical facility is an approximate hour drive on curvy mountain roads. The hospital is a standalone hospital, not associated with any other hospitals or chains. Bear Valley Community Hospital provides emergency room services, has eleven acute beds and a skilled nursing facility. Bear Valley Community Hospital accepts a wide variety of insurances and sees all ages and types of patients. The Family Health Center has a variety of specialty providers, as well as family practice. They have doctors with specialties in internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics/gynecology, pain control and chiropractic services (Family Health Center, n.d.). There is a telemedicine program that currently provides psychology services through telemedicine (Family Health Center, n.d.). There are several Family Nurse Practitioners and a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (Family Health Center, n.d.). As a result they see patients from pregnancy through adulthood. The clinic sees patients of all socioeconomic levels and accepts
One method for managing change in an organization is to be prepared through constant evaluation of the company. The management team needs to continually evaluate sales data, changes in the marketplace and activity by the competition to be able to anticipate change. When a company can see change coming as a result
Next, you need to develop a vision and strategy for your team. This will involve determining the idealized, expected state of affairs after the change is implemented. Because change can be confusing this will help give a since of organization.
This paper seeks to review the five phases and other key elements and outcome expectations with the purpose of providing clarity to the organizational focus. It then demonstrates some of the implications and accomplishments
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
Organizational change is often used to improve all or part of an organization, such as a process. Organizational change may occur as the organization changes its strategy for success or when there were decisions made to change the entire environment that the organization is currently functioning under (Cawsey, Deszca, & Ingols, 2011). Change can also occur as the organization evolves while moving through life cycles. In order for organizations to grow and develop, there must be change at various stages of this process.
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.
The “Chris Peterson at DSS Consulting” case discusses the events that took place during a structural change of the organization. DSS consulting was established in the late 1990’s three school district administrators, who had already retired. The main purpose of the company was to offer administrative support services to small school districts in Mountain West and Mid-West regions. The main areas of specialization included handling labor agreement negotiations and the implementation of solutions to permanent systems to enable smooth and efficient running of operations in the organizations. DSS Consulting experienced
When organizations are in a place to develop a change management plan, there is usually an organizational crisis or down turn that prompted such a change. This crisis should prompt the leaders of the organization to recognize the need for a turnaround, which could be considered the very beginning of a change management plan. Another part of the organizational change plan involves clearly identifying the tools and techniques leaders are going to use to get out of the crisis. Once all of these factors have been appropriately set, the organizational transformation can be under way.
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
However, in the recent years, many of the organizations engaged Organization Development Manager instead of a Training Manager. Reason being OD Manager not only focus on those traditional values and skills, but they also concentrate on organizational effectiveness, ultimate results, and focus more on process, structural, technical and strategies in the organization. This explains the high demand of OD Manager as the position of an OD Manager act as an organizational development intermediary and advisor to the leaders of the organization and aids the organization’s initiatives within the organization. An OD manager uses the behavior science knowledge to find out the root cause, then plan and implement effective strategies to develop high performance in the organization; they also manage HR programs for all levels such as directors, managers and
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
Organization development grew out of the human relations traditions of the 1940s and 1950s, and it has had enormous influence on management practices and thinking about how organizational effectiveness can be achieved. Critical manpower and resource shortages faced by all organizations, public and private, during World War II and in the immediate post-war years stimulated a search by social scientist and managers, separately and in cooperation with one another, for effective means to maximize the utilization of existing individual and organizational resources. (Ritcher, I 2007). Organization Development was by tradition about planned change efforts, instituted to enhance organization effectiveness within the context of the traditional, hierarchical, management-as-experts, top-down era. The legacy of leaders and organizations developed in this context remain. Organizational Development is about how organizations and people function and how to get them to function better. Organization transformation signals the need to transform mindsets, engage people and make the deep shift to the ongoing mutual learning environment needed for the long-lasting change characteristic of our world today.
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).