Organizational Development Report: Comparing Oxfam, Amazon, Coventry

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of organizational development, focusing on three distinct organizations: Oxfam, Amazon, and Coventry City Council. The introduction establishes organizational development as a planned change strategy, while the body of the report delves into key characteristics, vision, mission, health and safety policies, organizational philosophies, and the application of specific theories such as the MBO cycle and the 5 P's strategy within each organization. It examines the organizational structure, communication methods, cultural aspects, management styles, and leadership characteristics. The report further evaluates the performance and effectiveness of each organization, providing recommendations for graduate student employees, with a conclusion summarizing the comparative differences in their business profiles, organizational philosophies, and environmental influences. The report highlights the impact of various models and theories on performance levels. Finally, the report concludes that Amazon would be a suitable organization for a graduate student. The report utilizes the provided references to support its arguments and findings.

ORGANIZATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 KEY CHARACTERISTICS
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Organizational development is a special technique which helps the organization to
bring changes in the entire aspect of an organization rather than focusing on
individuals. It is simply a technique to bring a planed change in an organization.
 OD is a comprehensive strategy for making improvements in an organization. Present
report discusses about the characteristics and difference business profile of three types
of an organization like Oxfam, Amazon and Coventry City Council

Key characteristics
Amazon
 Amazon is a multinational company of technology which is focusing on e-commerce,
artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
 Amazon is a private company and is the world's largest e-commerce market place and
cloud computing platform. It was founded by Jeff Bezos in July, 1994.
 Its headquarters is at Seattle, Washington, United States. It is a global company and
has more than 100 million subscribers

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 Vision: Amazon's vision is to become world's most customer centric company and to
become a online company where the customers can find and buy anything they want.
 Mission: To provide the products to customer at low prices with a best selection for
customers and at utmost convenience.
 Amazon's health and safety and Environmental policies: Amazon's heath and safety
team executes their company policies and are ensuring that local and regional
regulation are applicable to their stores across the world (Kazmi, 2017). Amazon keep
on making continuous improvements take initiatives to reduce the risks in their
processes and ensure that there exists safe and healthy working environment for
Amazon associates

Theory- MBO cycle
 Amazon's Organizational Philosophy: Amazons business philosophy is “focusing on the
customer makes a company more resilient”
 Amazon: Amazon works through MBO cycle as Amazon's aim is top improve the performance
of the organization and are clearly defining its objectives which are agreed by both employees
and the management. It involves six steps:
 1. At first Amazon defines its goals
 2. In second step Amazon define employees objectives
 3. Amazons monitors its perform and progress towards the set objective.
 4. Amazon makes performance evaluation
 5. checks the feedback
 6. and at the end makes performance appraisal (Hoover, Giambatista and Tribble, 2016)

Cont..
Oxfam
 Oxfam is a charitable organization which is focusing on eliminating the poverty in the
world. Oxfam is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1942.
 It is one of the major non profit group which is involved in extensive collection of
operations. Winnie Byanyima is the executive director of Oxfam since 2013. A main
focus of the organisation is to help the needy people across the world.

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 Vision: Oxfam wants to see the world without poverty and imagines a kind of a world
in which the people can influence the decisions which affects their lives and people
can enjoy their rights and take care of their responsibilities to help others.
 Mission: Oxfam wants to be a global organization and to work for the humanity in
such a way to end the poverty and to tackle the root causes of poverty and provide
solutions to reduce poverty (Safety and welfare, 2019).

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Oxfam health and safety and Environmental policies:
 Activities of Oxfam which have an impact on environment and communities
are Oxfam follows the principles of Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle.
 Also Oxfam uses the tools of ethical purchasing policy in order to influence supply
chain employment conditions
 Oxfam organizational philosophy: Organizational philosophy of Oxfam is “ To help
people build better futures for themselves and save lives in disasters”

Theory- 5 p's strategy
 Oxfam: Oxfam uses 5 p's strategy for its business operations
 1. Plans: First Oxfam plans the actions which are to be carried out for the
business.
 2. Patterns: Patterns are about the strategies which have been implemented by
Oxfam in past which help Oxfam to achieve results.
 3. Position: Oxfam looks its position in the markets does its match to the
requirements of stakeholders (Siddiq, Ahmad and Jan, 2015).
 4. Perspective: Oxfam frames the strategy to target large audience.
 5. Ploy: Oxfam gains the competitive advantage over its competitors.

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Coventry City Council
 Coventry City Council is a local government organisation of UK which is responsible
for the governance of city of Coventry in UK.
 Coventry is a public company of UK and is controlled mainly by labour Party form last
few decades. It was founded April 1974, produced by Coventry city council of county
Borough of Coventry

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 Vision: Coventry city Council's Vision is to drive the services to the public to ensure
children are at heart of everything Coventry city Council does, to work with families, to
provide high quality, child centred and effective services. To serve the people with high
performance with a committed work force.
 Mission: To provide the services to family and children and to develop a mature
partnership and to provide early help to the people (Shah, Hussain and Rahman, 2016).
 Coventry City Council organizational philosophy: City Councils works on the
philosophy of “Don't make excuses, make improvements”