Introduction: Sunflower Incorporated is a large company with more than 5000 employees and gross sales over $700 million in 1991. They are covering the United States and Canada with dividing them into 22 regions. They are decentralized; each region has its own salespeople‚ finance and warehouse. Sunflower started to have a reporting system to have better monitoring for the sales‚ costs and profits. They found a big variance in the revenues between the different regions and made it difficult that
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What is the role of an OD consultant as a change leader? What are the core competencies of an OD professional? A change leader is the person who is designated to oversee change within an organization (Brown‚ 2011). The change leader is usually an external or internal practitioner. The external practitioner is brought from outside the organization as consultant who is an OD specialist. An internal practitioner is an individual selected from within the organization. It is dependent upon the organization
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Your Turn A contract is a verbal or written agreement between the client and the OD practitioner. The contract specifies the expectations of the client and the OD practitioner. The client and the OD practitioner collaborate with each other and provide the resources necessary for the OD practitioner to access the organization and areas that need change. The contract may also include confidentially and how the OD practitioner will be involved in personal issues (Cummings & Worley‚ 2005). In the
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moves. When these developments occur‚ the organizations that adapt quickest create a competitive advantage for themselves‚ while the companies that refuse to change get left behind. This can result in drastic profit and/or market share losses. Organizational change directly affects all departments from the entry level employee to senior management. The entire company must learn how to handle changes to the organization. When determining which of the latest techniques or innovations to adopt‚ there
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Assuming there is resistance to a change effort in the case‚ identify and explain restraining forces that could block implementation of a change effort. Restraining forces are factors that impede a change in an organization. Restraining forces that could potentially impede the change effort were threat to security‚ self-interest‚ lack of trust‚ internal and external politics and poor communication. Threat to security Change resulting in a disadvantage to an individual employee or group tends to
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OD CASE ANALYSIS : UNFREEZING CHANGE Pierre Frankel‚ an experienced and devoted employee of an international IT company H-IT was sent to the Russian subsidiary as a Deputy Managing Director of Russia for H-IT to improve the subsidiary’s performance and ensure an increase in profitability. Pierre Frankel’s background Studied Economics and business management at a reputed European University Started career in Switzerland with a Consulting Major in Finance and moved to IT Joined H-IT a worldwide provider
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value offerings‚ reducing the risks caused by rapid environmental change‚ sharing complementary skills‚ acquiring new knowledge‚ building assigned close relationships with major customers‚ or obtaining resources beyond those available to a single company. •Strategic relationships of these kinds are escalating in importance because of realities such as the environmental complexity and risks of a global economy‚ the skill and resource limitations of a single organization and the power of major customer
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blew at 2.30 pm and the employees of morning shift were leaving the factory after their duty. Dr. Sahay‚ Chairman & Managing Director of Scooters India Ltd. Looked through the glass window of his corner room and was wondering if he could make the company profitable and secure their jobs through infusion of home grown incremental technology. Can this incremental technology sustain in the long run. He knew the only way Scooter India Ltd. (SIL) could survive was to take an aggressive position in the
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from May 3‚ 2010 to July 1‚ 2010. This Summer Internship report has the requisite standard for the partial fulfillment the Post Graduate Degree in International Business. To the best of our knowledge no part of this report has been reproduced from any other report and the contents are based on original research. Signature Signature (Mrs. Kokil Jain) (Prashant Makker) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I express my sincere gratitude to my industry guide Mr.Rajesh Grover‚ Manager – North Planning
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Thesis Proposal Introduction In the current situation of the organizations‚ different changes affect the technological and systematic innovation. The competencies include in the globalization and the international market also took part in the exploration of the organizations in improving the different areas in where they think the organization is losing the competency. One common and popular department is the human resources in which the training and development might be an effective solution
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