DIAGNOSTIC MODELS: AN INTRODUCTION Julie A. C. Noolan Traditional diagnostic models can be categorized as descriptive models or normative models. Descriptive models With descriptive models‚ the role of the OD practitioner is to illuminate “what is” for the client‚ and “what could be”. Within descriptive models‚ contingency theorists would argue that the OD practitioner facilitates change only‚ not focus. The client determines the direction of change and the OD practitioner helps the client get
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organisational leaders in their endeavours to implement change (Holt‚ Self‚ Thal & Lo 2002). Many authors concur that the prime task of leaders is to bring about change and that leadership and change management are indeed inextricably linked (Burnes 2003‚ Stoker 2006‚ Maurer 2008). Robinson and Harvey (2008) maintain that the acceleration of globalisation has resulted in a tumultuous state of change as organisations struggle to adapt to new models of leadership. Consequently‚ few would dispute that
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members to enter and wander the crime scene. Therefore‚ evidence and theories remain scrambled but when closely examined‚ the events and the culprit of the crime are clear. Burke Ramsey‚ JonBenet’s older brother‚ killed the young pageant queen and was aided in the feigning innocence by his parents John and Patsey Ramsey. Burke Ramsey was a child with a bad temper and the capability of harming his sister. In fact‚ a year before
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Strategy Making‚ Organizational Learning and Performance in SMEs Author: Edward Gonsalves Open University Business School & Visiting Lecturer‚ European Business School The theoretical role of organizational learning in entrepreneurship strategy has been largely limited to in-depth case analysis both empirically and as method. Such developments reflect the diverse nature of entrepreneurial phenomena‚ definitional controversy over what constitutes entrepreneurship‚ the emergence of entrepreneurship
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB): Evaluating Organizational Efficiency and Success through Employee Performance In Israeli Public Management Eran Vigoda-Gadot Abstract Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is a unique aspect of individual activity at work‚ first mentioned in the early 1980s. According to Organ’s (1988) definition‚ It represents "individual behavior that is discretionary‚ not directly or explicitly recognized by the formal reward system‚ and in the aggregate
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employees and end up influencing their behavior in the organization. These are the properties of any business environment that the stuff come directly in contact with and observe them. Such properties are also influence employees voice‚ action and job performance. Other scholars refer to organization climate as corporate culture (Haasen 2003). These qualities are the small things that usually run an organization and make it what it is and what it will remain to be. In any organization around the world
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bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them. Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance by Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Who Has the D?: How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance 10 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the
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CASE STUDY: JetBlue Airways & Organizational Development: Partners for Change Michael Morales March 30‚ 2012 Table of Contents Abstract ………………………………………………………………………………...3 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………….4 Stage 1 - Entering and Contracting …………………………………………………….5 Stage 2 - Diagnosis ……………………………………………………………….........6 Stage 3 - Planning and Implementing ………………………………………………….9 Stage 4 - Evaluating and Institutionalizing …………………………………………....10 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………
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and investor demands‚ and ever increasing product market competition‚ has become the norm for most organization. To compete‚ they must continually improve their performance by reducing costs; innovating products and processes; improving quality‚ productivity‚ and speed to market; and more importantly by improving their individual performance within the organization. In order to do this‚ a set of distinctive human resource strategies‚ defined as internally consistent bundles of human resource practices
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Evolution of Performance Measurement Models in Management Accounting Name Grade course Tutor’s name 2nd October 2010 Abstract Changes in management accounting have gone by unnoticed in the recent years. This article tries to explain by how much management accounting has altered through the years‚ since the 1950s to date‚ and the reasons that led to the changes. This work also focuses on various performance evaluation models‚ their applications and their effectiveness. Introduction
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