“Kindre Todd and the Ehtics of OD” 1. Identify and describe the ethical dilemma situation.
In this case, an OD professional consultant may face several conflicts from internal
External sources as well as the companies’ values for how to resolve issues in this case. Some companies value lateral open exchange of information and problem solving where as others might have a top-down approach for problem-solving. The
OD consultant must work with varies environments and effective based on the companies’ individual needs and problems. So that, The OD professional is often face the challenge with what is the best strategy to develop a plan based on differing sets of values from the companies. Another challenge facing the OD professional is that of ethics is that when entering into a situation, the consultant and company have different values, needs, skills, and attributes on how to accomplish the change needed.
The consultant may have to deal with conflict as some company may not willing to adapt themselves. And that is why values have played a key role in OD to promote trust, collaboration and openness for improving organizational effectiveness and productivity. 2. Provide background for the ethical dilemma; explain how it come about.
The best ethical dilemma that can be described in the background of Kindre Todd case is “Technical Ineptness” The Kindred Todd case did not articulate the exact skills and attributes of both sides; company or the consultant. Their values may very much be different and thus could enter the two sides into role conflict or role ambiguity. In solving organizational problems, most of OD consultant need to have a proper skills, techniques, and training which sometimes it may require to have more experiences in the industry but in this case Kindred Todd had just finished a master degree.

3. Evaluate how the