Assignment | Organizational Development and Change

Running head: ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
Organizational
Development and
Change
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Contents
Unit 1 Introduction to Organisation Development and Change (ODC)...............................2
Introduction.............................................................................................................. 2
Implementation of organizational development and change on the issue faced by businesses
and organizations in real life....................................................................................... 2
Background and context......................................................................................... 2
Concept of Organizational Development and Change.................................................3
Factors behind the Organization Change...................................................................3
Change management issue faced by businesses and organizations in real life and
processes undergone by them in facing the problem..................................................4
Failure to develop key competencies and behaviors....................................................4
Possible solutions..................................................................................................... 5
Resolving the issues by applying the Change Management theories.............................5
Lewin change management model...........................................................................5
Action Research Model........................................................................................... 6
The Positive Model................................................................................................ 7
Process of Organisation Development and Change....................................................8
OD Interventions.................................................................................................... 8
Conclusion............................................................................................................. 10
References............................................................................................................ 11

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Unit 1 Introduction to Organisation Development and Change (ODC)
Introduction
Organizational development(OD) and change is the study of addressing the
change and its effect on organizations and personnel within those companies.
Efficient organizational development can help in coping up with changes. Various
strategies can be formulated for introducing planned change like team-building
efforts for improving the organizational functioning. Thus organizational development
can help the companies to cope up with external and internal turbulences in the
environment by introducing planned efforts for change. These organizational
development change efforts if facilitated by professionals hired from outside bring
organized changes within companies and teams (Smither, Houston & McIntire,
2016).
The following report illustrates the organizational development and change
issues confronted by various businesses in real life. It would apply different models
of organizational development and change like Positive model, Lewin’s change
model, Action Research Model, etc. to resolve the issues. This report would also
follow various steps of organizational development and change like entering and
contracting, diagnosing organizations, diagnosing groups and jobs, gathering and
assessing data relating to diagnosis and providing feedback on that information. It
would also take the help of OD interventions which are programs designed for
resolving the change-related problem and helping the organizations to achieve their
objectives. The data of real-life case studies of change management in organizations
would be collected from the journal article, websites and books.
Implementation of organizational development and change on the issue
faced by businesses and organizations in real life
Background and context
The present commercial world is confronting various fluctuations in the
scenario thereby creating prospects and threats. This has led to a business making
changes in their various processes related to the workplace more frequently than

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before. The commercial world is confronting variations pertaining to technology,
competition, regulations and financial conditions, thereby affecting behaviors and
perceptions of the consumers and various stakeholders of the organizations. As a
result, change is regarded to be an inevitable component of this commercial world
as it comprises of development and growth. As per Peter Drucker, “Change in
organizational culture and management should be considered to be normal and
healthy”( Anderson, 2016).
Concept of Organizational Development and Change
Organizational Development and Change (ODC) is a policy for helping the
companies to build their capacity to introduce change and accomplish greater
effectiveness in their internal and external environments. ODC aims at improving the
capability of the company to deal with its internal and external functions and
relations, improving group dynamic forces, the structure of the organization along
with collaborative and efficient management of its culture. The first result of
diagnoses discussion and presentation of ODC is awareness of the situations . It
focuses on people, their responsibilities and the environment and culture in which
they function (Chmiel, Fraccaroli & Sverke, 2017).
Factors behind the Organization Change
The change in the organization occurs due to internal or external factors.
They may bring modify the activities of the company but at the same time also create
problems in the successful execution of the change management process. These
factors may pertain to changes in the policies and laws of government , procurement
of materials , cultural and social values , economic condition of the national and
global scenario , trade policies and rules , technology , taste of consumers and their
needs , nature of workforce , social trends , world politics and innovative processes
(Hayes ,2018).