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CONTRIBUTE TO ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT
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Questions and answers:
Q1: How would you determine how current strategic plans are aligned with goals of an
organisation?
The performance analysis graph and comparison from the past performance executions can
determine the effectiveness of the current strategies implemented. Moreover, collecting review
from the employees and monitoring the performance implementation and output gained can
reflect the usefulness of the strategies. When companies operational satisfaction is achieved,
the success of implemented strategies are rated positively (Mežinska, Lapiņa & Mazais, 2015).
Q2: What areas would consultation need to cover in order to determine the culture of an
organisation?
The notion of dealing a culturally diversified workforce and any conflict arising regarding
inclusion policies need consultation. Perception varies in human beings and a work culture has
to be comfortable and acceptable of operating with people from different sectors. The
behaviour, code of conduct and perception of the employees will be in need of consultation in
determining workplace culture (Rauws, 2016).
Q3: What are the 5 key organisational development change process roles?
The five organisational development intervention steps in change process roles are:
 Diagnostic activity: Analysing the position of the organisation referring to the current
state
 Building team: Designing workforce according to work efficiency offered
 Sensitivity training: Experimenting change
 Intergroup relationship: Understanding team members compatibility
 Process consultation: Assisting the management (Rowledge et al. 2017).
Q4: What types of data may be collected to inform on areas of the business that are
experiencing problems or need realignment?
Surveying the most negative comments received or highlighted in verbal communication.

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Feedback from employees and target audience as well as reports from team analysers can be
collected for asserting the situations of existing problems and finding effective remedies.
Business operations is highly dependent on consistent and transparent communication (Tian,
Risku & Collin, 2016).
Q5: What types of activities can be used to decide upon strategies and objectives?
Conducting strategy effectiveness analysis plans, communication plans, meetings and strategy
evaluation activities can decide upon the objectives. Assessing the risk analysis of the
company with its internal environment analysis can significantly reflect the need of new
strategies and implementation decision (Mežinska, Lapiņa & Mazais, 2015).
Q6: What are some of activities and interventions that maybe required to be included
within the overall organisational development plan?
Interventions like collecting feedback after planning the strategies are often conducted to
understand the transparency in the team and proceeding on with actual implementing strategy
team building. From the initial diagnosis phase of the development plan to evaluation, the
interventions of collecting feedback can be conducted to make the strategies more effective
and acceptable (Rauws, 2016).
Q7: Why do we need to develop communication/education plans?
The need of communication or education development plan is a comparison of the experience,
current performing capability and future expectations. To evolve from the mediocre stage to
excel at every level, the development plan is needed that consist of ideas and ways to evolve
from operating members (Rowledge et al. 2017).
Q8: What would you need to do in order to implement organisation development
activities?
Identifying the need of development is the first thing to be interrogated. Understanding the
need will reflect places where the dis-functionalities are sustaining and has to be changed. The
activities of development can hence, be sorted and clarified. The correct steps to be taken