MBA –H4010 Organisational Development And Change ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE UNIT – I LEARNING OBJECTIVES The student is expected to learn the following concepts after going through this unit. 1. Change 3. Planned Change 5. Unplanned Change 2. 4. 6. Stimulating Forces Change Agents Lewin’s Three Step Model The change means the alteration of status quo or making things different. It may refer to any alteration which occurs in the overall work environment of an organization
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| Qantas: The Context of Change Today’s organisations find themselves operating in an ever volatile changing global environment and as such need to be able to implement both incremental and transformational organisational change to ensure the organisations long term sustainability (Waddell‚ Cummings‚ & Worley‚ 2011‚ p. 2).This essay will focus on the Qantas Group which operates in the aviation industry and has recently been challenged to change in the face of increasing internal and external
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For one person a change represents progress; whereas‚ for another‚ catastrophe. How have the composers of the texts you have studied convey these differences in response to change? In your answer‚ you must refer to Heart of Darkness‚ either in the park poem or Onegin the film and one of your own choice. For one person a change represents progress; whereas‚ for another‚ catastrophe. Heart of Darkness is the ideal book in terms of telling a story that confirms change can mean either progress or
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Coping with Change Every corporate strategy is undermined by change whether it is due to 1. Technological change 2. Societal change or 3. Fashion change ■ Mistake were not the speed of change but direction of change ■ Obviously a company has to adjust its strategy to take advantage of change when change takes place There are five basic ways to do so……. Five basic ways to react change are 1) A foot in both camps 2) A foot in new camps 3) Both feet
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CLIMATE CHANGE What does the climate mean? Climate‚ like weather‚ describes the state of the atmosphere in terms of factors such as temperature‚ rainfall‚ and wind patterns. Whereas the weather describes conditions as measured in hours‚ days or weeks‚ the climate is average weather conditions measured over the longer term: months‚ years or decades. What is climate change? Any process that causes adjustments to a climate system – from a volcanic eruption to a cyclical change in solar
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With many changes for better or for worse‚ education will still be a priority for our children. After interviewing two teachers that have been in the education workforce for over twenty years‚ I realized how much change in society has affected the way teachers taught their students. The first teacher I interviewed had been teaching for twenty-five years and is a sixth grade teacher. She noted that any change in our culture has made a difference in her classroom. As part of the changes the role
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THE APPLICATION OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT THEORY TO HR PORTAL IMPLEMENTATION IN SUBSIDIARIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS Cataldo Dino Ruta HR portals are complex information technology (IT) applications that can be accessed by all employees of a given organization. By placing more applications and information online‚ HR portals reduce the reliance employees have on HR personnel. Given this relational change‚ from human to computer‚ the HR portal implementation process must take into account the
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References: 3. Alaina G. Levine (2011): A mid-career change? No Problems‚ Only Opportunities 4
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I began this class with very little nutritional knowledge. During week one of this class‚ it became evident to me that my eating habits were completely unhealthy. Before taking this course‚ my interpretation of eating right consisted of eating foods that I thought were healthy‚ and basically sticking to that particular meal plan. I started this class coming off of a self-created protein diet plan of my own. My diet plan consisted solely upon eating cereal for breakfast‚ chicken breast‚ white rice
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The two companies that have undergone similar‚ and fairly substantial‚ changes in recent years are Wal-Mart and General Motors (GM). Both are established publicly traded companies that are typically considered blue chip stocks. However‚ both have made the major decision in recent years to undergo corporate restructuring. In 2009‚ an organizational change was announced by Wal-Mart. It was the restructuring of Wal-Mart’s global sourcing team to leverage the scale of its global merchandising operations
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