Business and Economics

Organizational Change and Development – MGW 3130Berwick Campus, 2013

Tutorial 6– Week 7mulyadi.robin@monash.edu

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Assessment Reminders Assessment Task 1

– Online discussion postings– You need to continue to contribute to a minimum of FIVE

postings over FIVE different weeks.– Most of you have NOT contributed over the past few weeks.

Assessment Task 3– 20 minute presentation + report (due on day of presentation)– Research and analyze a change issue– You need to INTEGRATE case examples in answering your

questions– You need to include an activity in your presentation.– Distribute handouts to the rest of the class.

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AgendaDiagnosing Organizations and Designing Interventions

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Intervention Focus• Strategic issues

– focus on the big picture ensuring that the organisation is competitive, well-positioned in the market and ready to meet new challenges

• Technology and structure issues– focus on ensuring that the design structure and the technology are

aligned to the strategic goals of the organisation

• Human resource issues– focus on ensuring that personnel practices are aligned to recruiting

and retaining the best people for the organisation

• Interpersonal issues– focus on developing people and their interpersonal skills

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Open Systems Model

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PESTLE Analysis

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McKinsey’s 7S

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Developed in the 1970s by Waterman & Peters

Called the ‘managerial molecule’

Most often used to assess & monitor changes

in the internal environment

These seven elements must be aligned and mutually reinforcing

Weisbord’s Six Box

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Your Task! Apply broad organizational frameworks to the Boeing case study

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Homework!1. Define the term ‘intervention’.

2. Explain the categories of intervention identified by Waddell in Chapter 7. Give an example per category.

3. Describe what a process consultant does.

4. How would you suggest that a group manages intragroup conflict?

5. How would you advise organisations proceed in relation to poor relationships between organisational groups?

6. How does an organisation know if the interventions that have been implemented have been successful?

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