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Organizational DevelopmentExploring the paradigm wars in organizationaltheoryThe essay is concerned with the critical analysis of the strategic choice and deterministic theories. The analysis will clarify the understanding of the actions taking place in the organization and how they will contribute to the development of the organization. The strategic choice theory describes the maintenance of industrial relations and coping up with the uncertainties using the strategic approach. Thereafter the deterministic theory shall be analyzed and all its 3 theories i.e. resource dependency theory, industrial theory and population ecology which is a broader aspect and inculcated variety of options. The best suitable approach for organizational development and accomplishment of actions will be selected and the reason for the selection of the particular theory will be quoted. In nutshell, the essay will discuss the various aspects and approach that affect the business and if wise steps are taken then profit maximisation could be initiated and employee engagement might be gained as well which might result beneficial for the organization as a whole. Strategic choice is an important factor for the development of an organization. It highly contributes to determining the organizational actions and assists the manager's inadequate decision making. For developing the clear understanding of the organization and controlling its internal and external affairs the strategic choice theory has been developed. This particular theory has been developed in U.S. at the time when the changes in the industrial relations were taking place rapidly (Wheelen & Hunger, 2017). The strategic choice theory focuses on the external forces that are directly and indirectly related to the organizational affairs and assists in building up the relations between the employer-employee and creating the betterment in employer-employee relations as well. The changing external environment is analyzed and accordingly, the competitive strategies are designed to fight with the dynamic market. The manager undertakes the changes in the competitive strategies which result in the emergence of various values, beliefs, philosophies, and innovation in decision-making techniques (Pisano, 2017). The companies now adopt the decentralization method where the part of responsibility followed by authority is rendered to the employees sothat they may also take the decision and even their decision-making skills get improved. The suggestions and ideas from the low-level employees result in the betterment of the relations 1

Organizational Developmentand the employee engagement with the organization gets increased. This develops the belongingness of employees within the firm and the time that has been saved in making smalldecisions is invested in certain more important deals which lead to the development of the organization as a whole. While making the strategic changes the crucial points that need to benoticed are decision making groups and immediate management of the uncertainty that could strike the business (Jinjisoshiki, 2017). There is a certain strategic approach that could be learned for the betterment of the business:The first strategic approach is the immediate decision making in the particular situation using the limited resources. Strategies are the planning and plotting of the decision for the particular thing or accomplishment of the predefined objections. But there are situations that occur on the sudden basis and the rapid decision has to be taken. At that point, the intellectual skills and risk-taking power of the person could be analyzed (Tatham, 2017). The second approach towards the strategic choice is to deal with the uncertainties and how the manager deals with the unpredictable situations. The nature of problem needs to be analyzed whether it is a technical, political or procedural event and how each one could be repaired on the urgent basis by adding on the profit is the time where the skills of an efficient manager could be ranked. The third strategic approach is incremental in nature and the framework designed for this is known as commitment package (Cook, Salter & Stadler, 2017). In these kinds of strategies, the priorities have been set and accordingly the problems and uncertain situations could be solved out. The balance has been derived from the decisionsthat need to be inculcated currently and some decisions could be left pending for the near future. The final fourth approach is interactive in nature and it is not meant for the experts of the field who are settled in the back office and handling the management, this strategy is for those people that have come from the divergent backgrounds and efforts have been made to initiate the communication between them (Hill, Jones & Schilling, 2014). It designs the collaboration to collect people at the place and harmony gets created in the organization. Better the internal communication of the organization strong will be the internal organizational structure. Through the medium of interaction, the hesitation among the peers, superiors, and subordinates is lowered and many latent things get discovered which at last prove to be the gem for the organization (David & David, 2016). The knowledge expansion takes place along with the enhancement in the interpersonal skills and abilities of the employees which will be beneficial from the perspective of the individual as well as the organization (University of Cambridge, 2016). 2

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