College of Administrative and Financial Sciences Assignment 2022

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment 2
Deadline: 02/04/2020 @ 23:59
Course Name: Organization Design &
Development Student’s Name:
Course Code: MGT404 Student’s ID Number:
Semester: II CRN:
Academic Year: 1440/1441 H
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Instructor’s Name:
Students’ Grade: Level of Marks:
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Department of Business Administration
Organization Design and Development- MGT 404
Assignment 2
Marks: 10
Course Learning Outcomes:
 Analyze the strategic role of change in the organization and its impact on
organizational performance (Lo 2.9)
 Identify and apply the basic steps of the organizational development process (Lo 2.5)
 Define the human, structural and strategic dimensions of the organizational
development (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)
Assignment Instructions:
 Be sure to use at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed references in
support of each answer and also incorporate the key
concepts from the course.
Assignment Workload: This Assignment comprise of a Case study. Assignment is to be submitted by each student individually.
Assignment-1
 Please read the case study entitled as “Top Management Team at Ortiv Glass
Corporation.” available in the textbook “Organization Development & Change” 9th
edition by Cummings, T and Worley, C and answer the following questions:
Assignment Question(s):
 Q.1 Discuss why ‘strategic orientation’ is fundamental to diagnosis in OD. Support
your answer using two examples from this case study. (1.5 marks) (Lo 2.9)
 Q.2 Explain why it is important for a group design to be congruent with the larger
organization design. Support your answer using an example from this case study (1.5
marks) (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)
 Q.3 Based on your understanding of the group-level diagnostic model, describe and
evaluate each of the Ortiv’s team design components:
- Goal clarity (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
- Task structure (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)

- Team functioning (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
- Group composition (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
- Group norms (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
 Q.4 Discuss how the group design of Ortiv’s Glass Corporation could positively or
negatively impacts on the diagnosis of design components at the individual level. (2
Marks) (Lo 2.9)
Answers:
A.1... Strategic orientation plays a greater role on the integration of different types of strategic
orientations and it has been considered as a specific mode of action. It helps in the determination of
the internal processes and also to adapt the environmental conditions. Therefore, in other words it
can be said that it is a set of strategic management principles which is capable of generating
organizational behaviors for enhancing the performance (Al-Ansaari, Bederr & Chen, 2015). The
implementation of changes in a business organization is important for its growth and development.
The course of the implementation process depends on various internal and external conditions
(Lewis, 2019). Therefore, here in the case study, The Otriv Glass Corporation is engaged in
producing and marketing of plate glass for construction and automotive industries. They actively
support participative management and is involved in OD for a long span of time. This company has
given freedom to its manufacturing plants for developing their own organizational design along with
the approaches for the participative management. The team members also possess a cordial
relationship among themselves especially in times of dealing complex issues.
A.2... The group design is expected to be congruent with the larger organization design. The
structures of the organization which has high integration and low differentiation are advised to have
work groups which consist of experienced and high skilled members so that the highly
interdependent tasks can be performed (Audenaert, et al., 2018). The organizations which have
formalized human resources and differentiated structures should have a group which is clear about
the quantitative goals and support the standardized behaviors. Therefore, the congruence which