Marjorie Benton

American Internet Technology company

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Scenario

An American Internet Technology company has merged with a Canadian Social Media company. Because of this merger, performance is not as optimum as the executives would have hoped; morale is low, and stress is up. The new company has decided to hire you as an Organizational Development consultant. They have tasked you with finding out the issues and what they should do next to get back on track.

Instructions

Now that you have secured your role as an Organizational Development consultant, you are now tasked with determining a diagnostic and intervention process. You will need to demonstrate to management how using the chosen diagnostic process will be used in the new company to help increase the efficiency of the organization.

The following questions should be included in your business, professional report:

  1. Describe how you select a diagnostic process to use for this organizational development cultural change.
  2. Given the current situation, what are some of the process interventions you recommend for the newly merged company to ensure effective work teams?
  3. How would you collect the data needed for the organizational development program?
  4. Discuss some organizational development strategies that, as the consultant, you would use to create the necessary change.

Requirements: 3-4 pages not including cover and reference page

Answer preview

Given the current situation in the new company, the recommended intervention would be to change some of the processes. This method is used in the merged company to ensure employees from both companies jointly optimize the technical and social subsystems and work together to meet the minimal social and organizational requirements required for the organization (Pfeil, Chatlani, LaViola Jr, & Wisniewski, 2021). For such change, I would recommend using a dynamic system development method that incorporates face-to-face user involvement that enhances development cycles that result in prototypical evolutionary solutions. The Canadian and American workers should come together to create a development team, while the merged company must meet user requirements needed at the organizational level.

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American Internet Technology company

Marjorie Benton

American Internet Technology company

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An American Internet Technology company has merged with a Canadian Social Media company. Because of this merger, performance is not as optimum as the executives would have hoped; morale is low, and stress is up. The new company has decided to hire you as an Organizational Development consultant. They have tasked you with finding out the issues and what they should do next to get back on track.

Instructions

As the Organizational Development consultant, the company has requested you to design a System 4 Management model for the newly merged company. You will need to create and record this as a presentation to be presented to the executives of the company. You can use any Webware/Software of your choosing for the voice recording.

Note: You need to record yourself giving the presentation; you will need your voiceover (audio) with the PowerPoint, Prezi, etc. In your presentation, you will want to address the following areas:

  1. Introduce System 4 Management.
  2. Discuss what a learning organization is, and how it can foster positive change.
  3. Assess some common mistakes or problems that may happen if other management systems are used.
  4. Provide suggestions for best practices their managers can use to incorporate System 4 Management to become a high-performing company.
  5. Conclude your presentation with your recommendations.
  6. Consider using graphics in your presentation that represent the System 4 Management model.

Requirements: powerpoint

Answer preview

System 4 is an effective management approach that will resolve all the merger issues.

Engagement of employees will enhance affective commitment and leads to better performance.

The outlined best practices to improve performance is the only condition that will enhance good performance in using System 4.

There is a need for a transformative leadership style to influence organizational change and enhance better employee performance.

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American Internet Technology company

Marjorie Benton

Organizational Climate

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1. Your organization has been doing an Organizational Climate Survey for the past ten years. Every year the consulting firm you hired has presented the results to your senior management team (SMT). The SMT discusses the results to the mangers. You’ve joined the organization as Manger of Organizational Development. After some discussion with employees you’ve determined that these results were never given to the employees nor has anything ever been done with the results. Overall the results indicate low motivation, and job dissatisfaction. You also discovered that turnover is at 60%. Many people leave within one year of hiring. Include in your post:
o Describe the steps you would take in analyzing the situation.
o What specific recommendations would you make? Why?
o How SPECIFICALLY will you present your suggestions to Senior Leadership? What strategy would you use to present your ideas?
o Using a force field analysis model(driving and restraining forces), describe in detail the driving and restraining elements you anticipate as you work with this organization in implementing needed change.
o Pick two restraining forces and describe how you intend to overcome them.

Requirements: 2 pages

Answer preview

One of the recommendations that the manager needs to implement to address the issue presented in the case provided is to communicate the assessment results with the employees. The manager should receive the results pertaining organization’s climate survey. This allows them to compare whether the results coincide with their own responses. Secondly, the manager needs to address the employees’ concerns raised through the survey results (Varma, 2017). For instance, the manager needs to identify factors contributing to employees’ low motivation, job dissatisfaction, and higher attrition rate. In so doing, it will allow employees to feel that they are part of the organization.

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Organizational Climate