...Big changes had taken place when the Orlon plant had closed down, but few changes had taken place. Projects such as getting rid of one operation and installing another was being seen as regular business so there was no change management rubric. The root problem/key issues facing DuPont are closing of the Orlon Plant without creating a change management rubric that would frame the changes being made. Management did not meet with the employees to obtain feedback as to how the changes would affect them and causing management to miss the language and culture already established by its workers. Body 1. To what extent are the following approaches to change embedded in the DuPont story (justify your answer, providing specific examples) OD – Organizational Development is clearly the main focus here at DuPont. Tom had a vision to improve the organizational standards at DuPont not focusing on any problems that may have been present. The projected outcome for DuPont’s organizational structure was improving for the better of the company and the employees. Tom wanted to development to increase productivity for the company and its employees which would allow to company to be in a better stable place in the near future. Tom was building a strong foundation for the company which would benefit everyone involved. Tom seemed to show all the necessary skills needed to push his desired change. Appreciative inquiry – This approach points to the assumptions underlying the appreciative...
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...qualification into one text, a valuable resource to both learners and tutors has been created. It enhances the continuing alignment of educational objectives and the CIPD’s professional development framework to deliver and develop outstanding HR professionals.’ Ian Chapman, CIPD course leader, Warrington Collegiate ‘This is a clearly written text which successfully bridges the gap between theory and practice. Coverage of the core modules of the CIPD Intermediate qualification is comprehensive and is a welcome addition to assist students in studying at this level.’ Dr. Margaret Inman, Head of Postgraduate and Professional Studies, Swansea Metropolitan University Developing People and Organisations 'With its clear overview of contemporary debates and rich in case material, this accessible book will help close the theory-practice gap with respect to people and...
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...General Introduction to Organization Development Multiple Choice Questions 1. Which of the following is included in the definition of OD? a. OD applies to an entire system b. OD is based on behavioral science knowledge c. OD is concerned with planned change d. OD encompasses strategy, structure, and process changes e. all of the above ANS: e 2. Organization development distinguishes itself from organization change and change management by which of the following characteristics? a. addressing the effective sequence of leadership issues that produce organization improvements b. focusing narrowly on cost, quality, and schedule c. focusing on the transfer of knowledge and skills to help the system manage future change d. taking a broadly focused approach that can apply to any kind of change e. none of the above ANS: c 3. Which of the following is not one of the “stems” of OD? a. laboratory training b. environmental analysis c. action research/survey feedback d. participative management and quality of work life e. strategic change ANS: b 4. The first “T-group” was formed a. to facilitate decision making b. to work on group projects c. to make the group more cohesive d. as people related to data about their own behavior ANS: d 5. The assumption underlying the use of survey feedback in OD is a. surveys are the best way to collect data b. surveys allow one to collect a great deal of data c. surveys can provide feedback to...
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...guide is to support and energize individuals who use Organization Development: A Reader in their teaching – instructors who teach courses on organizational change, OD, the history of the field, leading change, consulting skills, and organizational effectiveness and health in undergraduate and graduate programs in management, the professions, and the administrative sciences, as well as those involved in professional development and corporate education activities. More specifically, this guide provides opportunities for both new and seasoned educators to learn more about (1) the possibilities in teaching about organizational change and development; (2) ways to design courses or successful learning modules for diverse student audiences using Organization Development; and (3) suggested cases, activities, and other support materials that complement use of Organization Development. Overview of the Instructor’s Guide This instructor’s guide is divided into four parts. PART 1 provides an introduction to Organization Development: A Reader. It discusses the overall purpose and content of the book, the philosophy and central tenets that underpin it. PART 2 explores teaching with Organization Development. It contains chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggested ways to think about teaching various kinds and levels of OD and change courses. PART 3 provides a sample syllabus for a graduate-level change course, learning modules on consulting skills, teaching activities, and case suggestions...
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... Contents Purpose and Acknowledgements Foreword 5 7 8 Introduction Part 1 The literature on change management Part 2 Tools, models and approaches: a selective review 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Where does the literature come from? What kind of evidence does it provide? What is meant by ‘change’? Organisational change in the NHS 12 13 14 18 2.1 How to access the models 2.2 How can we understand complexity, interdependence and fragmentation? Weisbord’s Six-Box Organisational Model 7S Model PESTELI Five Whys Content, Context and Process Model Soft Systems Methodology Process modelling Process flow Influence diagram Theory of Constraints (TOC) 22 25 25 27 29 30 32 34 36 37 38 39 40 40 42 43 45 46 47 48 48 50 54 54 55 56 56 58 2.3 Why do we need to change? SWOT analysis 2.4 Who and what can change? Force field analysis ‘Sources and potency of forces’ ‘Readiness and capability’ Commitment, enrolment and compliance Organisation-level change interventions Total Quality Management (TQM) Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Group-level change interventions Parallel learning structures Self-managed teams Individual-level change interventions Innovation research Securing individual behaviour change Managing Change in the NHS 2.5 How can we make change happen? Organisational development (OD) Organisational learning and the Learning Organisation Action research Project management 60 60 63 66 68 Part 3 Reflections on evidence 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Assistance with using...
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...TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT RAPELANG MAKHETHA BCom 3 Finance Contents Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 2 1.1 What is quality .................................................................................................................................. 2 1.2 Dimensions of quality ....................................................................................................................... 2 2. Business Process Reengineering Cycle ................................................................................................ 4 3. Cost of quality ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction TQM is an enhancement to traditional way of doing business. It is the art of managing the whole to achieve excellence. It is defined both a philosophy and a set of guiding principles that represent the foundation of a continuously improving organization. It is the application of quantitative methods of human resources to improve all the processes within an organization and exceed customer needs now and in the future. Question 1 – 1.1 What is quality 1.1 (According to Steve Jobs late CEO of apple inc. 2010 ) Quality is the degree to which a commodity meets the expectations of the customer and even goes beyond the quality of similar commodities in the...
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...RESISTANCE TO ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE Introduction Resistance is a common reason for the failure of change initiatives. The subject is thus of extreme importance to management. This paper explores the contention by King and Anderson that a common theme in defining resistance is “a naïve and managerialist assumption that resistance is counter-productive – even irrational – behaviour which needs to be overcome” with an emphasis on organisational change. It begins by looking at organisational change and its managerialist perspective and then examines resistance in an organisational setting. It ends with suggestions on how resistance to change should be managed by organisations. What is organisational change? Organisational change can be described as the transformation of an organisation from a current state to another, desired state. In all definitions of change there is the emphasis on the alteration from one state to another (Goodman and Kurke 1982). This process can be either structured or unstructured and can be either incremental (an improvement on an existing state) or transformational (a total transformation to another state). Organisations themselves have been defined as “social arrangements for the controlled performance of collective goals” (Huczynski and Buchanan 1991) and Rogers (1962) defines change as an alteration in the structure and function of a social system. While no consensus exists as to why organisations change (Hughes 2010), it is generally accepted...
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...RULES AND REGULATIONS OF M.B.A. PROGRAMME – 2010 The Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) is a Post-Graduate course offered as: I. II. Two-year i.e., four semester Full time Day programme Three year, i.e., six semester Part-time programme offered to Working Executives and employees. 1. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS 1.1 M.B.A. (Day) Candidate seeking admission into Full Time M.B.A. (Day) programme must be: 1. Bachelor degree holder of Osmania University or a degree recognized by the university as equivalent thereto and /(or) as per the rules laid down by the University; 2. The candidate seeking admission must qualify in the Entrance Examination, conducted by the appropriate authority in the year of admission as per the norms prescribed by the University. 3. The admission of Non-resident Indians and candidates admitted in lieu of them will be as per the University Rules in force on the date of the admission. 4. Foreign candidates’ admission is based on the Screening Process of the University currently in vogue. 1.2 M.B.A. (Evening) Candidate seeking admission into Part-Time M.B.A. (Evening) Programme has to satisfy the following Conditions: 1. Must be a Bachelor Degree holder of Osmania University or a Degree recognized by the university as equivalent thereto and/ (or) as per the Rules laid down by the University. 2. The candidate seeking admission must qualify in the entrance examination conducted by the appropriate authority in the year of admission as per the norms prescribed...
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...ground-up design of their business processes. According to Davenport (1990) a business process is a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome. Re-engineering emphasized a holistic focus on business objectives and how processes related to them, encouraging full-scale recreation of processes rather than iterative optimization of subprocesses.[1] Business process re-engineering is also known as business process redesign, business transformation, or business process change management. Contents [hide] • 1 Overview • 2 History o 2.1 Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate, 1990 o 2.2 Development after 1995 • 3 Business process reengineering topics o 3.1 The role of information technology o 3.2 Research and methodology • 4 BPR success & failure factors o 4.1 Organization wide commitment o 4.2 BPR team composition o 4.3 Business needs analysis o 4.4 Adequate IT infrastructure o 4.5 Effective change management o 4.6 Ongoing Continuous Improvement • 5 Critique • 6 See also • 7 References • 8 Further reading • 9 External links Overview[edit] Reengineering guidance and relationship of Mission and Work Processes to Information Technology. Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is basically...
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...processes. According to Davenport (1990) a business process is a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome. Re-engineering emphasized a holistic focus on business objectives and how processes related to them, encouraging full-scale recreation of processes rather than iterative optimization of subprocesses.[1] Business process re-engineering is also known as business process redesign, business transformation, or business process change management. Contents [hide] * 1 Overview * 2 History * 2.1 Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate, 1990 * 2.2 Development after 1995 * 3 Business process reengineering topics * 3.1 The role of information technology * 3.2 Research and methodology * 4 BPR success & failure factors * 4.1 Organization wide commitment * 4.2 BPR team composition * 4.3 Business needs analysis * 4.4 Adequate IT infrastructure * 4.5 Effective change management * 4.6 Ongoing Continuous Improvement * 5...
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...Employee performance -vs- reward system GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Vicki Boone Chartis Insurance is a world leader in insurance who can trace their roots back 90 years when an American entrepreneur named C.V. Starr founded Chartis. What began as a small insurance business grew to become one of the world’s largest companies. Their fundamental strength lies in the 40,000 employees who service more than 70 million clients around the world. Chartis delivers commercial and personal insurance though hundreds of innovative products and services. Commercial Insurance’s products and services are provided to the full spectrum of enterprises from all around the world, from large, multinational, and mid-sized companies to small business, entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations. Chartis Insurance serves commercial, institutional and individual customers through extensive property-casualty and life insurance networks. Chartis Insurance operates through five (four core and one non-core) divisions: life insurance and retirement services, general insurance, financial services, asset management, and other operations. By the end of 2007 Chartis Insurance had assets of approximately $1 trillion, $110 billion in annual revenues, 74 million customers and 116,000 employees in 130 countries and jurisdictions. (About Us) Within Chartis Insurance I am currently a Foreign Casualty Insurance Underwriter. I protect individuals and/or organizations from...
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...microcredit, women are disempowered for variety of reasons such as lacks of financial resources, being a member of patriarchy society, misinterpreted religious concepts about her role and position in the society, and cultural restraints. However, microcredit, globally promoted as a “miracle cure” for the financially weak, especially women who face so many problems accessing microcredit for variety of reason, which have been discussed in detail in this study. Methodology/Sample - This is qualitative study with inductive approach, and interpretive philosophy which allow the existence of multiple subjective perspectives and construction of knowledge. Women who availed microcredit from microfinance institutions (MFIs) were selected for the research study. The data was congregated through in-depth interviews and stopped at saturation level. Through phenomenological analysis, women lived experiences were analyzed. Findings - The results indicate that microcredit strengthens women in all dimensions but plays more influential role when they are provided with autonomous access to microcredit, support from family, and facilities from MFIs. Needless to say that the multidimensional women‟s stability contributes in alleviating feminization of poverty and this is not a...
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...available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1176-6093.htm Research in management accounting innovations An overview of its recent development Nur Haiza Muhammad Zawawi Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia and School of Accounting, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and Management accounting innovations 505 Zahirul Hoque School of Accounting, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of paper is to present a review of the literature on management accounting innovations (MAIs). Specifically, it explores recent developments in research on MAIs and offers suggestions for future research. The review differs from existing reviews by its specific focus on MAIs and the recent time period covered. In this paper, MAIs refer to the adoption of “newer” or modern forms of management accounting systems such as activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management, time-driven ABC, target costing, and balanced scorecards. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a review of findings from journal articles published in 22 notable accounting journals. Findings – The review finds that research on MAIs has intensified during the period 2000-2008, with the main focus on exploring the extent to which a host of organizational and environmental factors influence the implementation and use of MAIs in organizations. In addition, research on MAIs indicates the dominant use of sociological theories...
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...High Performance Executive Teams Sonia Taneja Texas A&M University-Commerce Scott Sewell Texas A&M University-Commerce Mildred Golden Pryor Texas A&M University-Commerce Strategically and tactically, organizational leaders often establish teams to accomplish the missions, visions, goals and objectives of their respective organizations. Teams exist in all types of organizations including financial institutions, factories, healthcare organizations, and educational institutions. Yet executives often struggle to maintain high performance of their own leadership teams. This research seeks to answer several questions, including: (1) What are the characteristics of a high performance executive team? (2) What problems do executive teams face that negatively impact their potential for high performance? And (3) What can executives do to increase their respective teams’ potential for high performance? INTRODUCTION Holmes (2012) recognized that organizations are changing from traditional hierarchical work structures to team-based approaches to work. He noted that high-performance teams must “develop goals and plans, enhance communication among members, develop and maintain positive relationships among members, solve problems and make decisions on a timely basis, successfully manage conflict, facilitate productive meetings, clarify roles for team members, operate in a productive manner, exhibit effective team leadership, provide development opportunities for team members”...
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...Chapter 5 Organizational Development and Change Chapter Overview The organizational development (OD) tradition is a practitioner-driven intervention-oriented approach to effecting organizational change via individual change, with view to increasing effectiveness. It is implemented within a problem-solving model, places a heavy accent on survey-based problem diagnosis and subordinates people to a vision of the future. Commitment-based strategies of effecting change assume that the impetus for change must come from the bottom up, whilst compliance-based strategies involve the creation of behavioural imperatives for change. Various ‘employee involvement’ strategies are reviewed, but there is little evidence for their effectiveness either as a means of securing commitment or enhanced performance, or as a means of leverage for change. Culture is assumed to be the primary vehicle for change within the OD tradition, although the relationship between culture and the change process is ill understood. Finally, the assumptions underpinning team development, and its implementation, are critically examined. The organizational culture literature itself is fraught with epistemological debate. Practitioners are interested in management by measurement and manipulation of culture. Theoreticians of culture, however, aim to understand the depth and complexity of culture. Unresolved issues remain regarding how to define culture, the difference between culture and climate, measurement/levels...
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