Approaches To Change Prompt: Organizational Development and Future Planning

Time Periods of Organizational Development

Approaches To Change Prompt: Review Table 9.1 (Palmer, Dunford, Buchanan, 2017).

Select one of the five listed time periods and describe this time period of organizational development in relation to your chosen company (course project). Articulate how the company would thrive (or not) through the lens of the corresponding developers.

Lastly, include a paragraph of how the company in your chosen time period would prepare for post 2021.

Professor’S Guidance For This Week's Le: In today's fast-paced, dynamic business environments, perhaps the only constant professionals can rely on is change. Organizations must be nimble and willing to make decisions quickly, and those that are able to do this will generally face a lot of change in short periods of time. This change could be organization-wide or team-based, and might stem from any number of factors, from technology to internal operating needs to finances to politics.

While change can often be a good thing, it's something that many individuals are uncomfortable with, or even fear. To many employees, hearing of coming changes implies negative outcomes: the loss of a job; a new manager; a restructured team; company-wide layoffs; reduced pay or benefits. As a leader, it's your responsibility to set the tone for your team and prepare yourself for managing organizational change as effectively as possible, helping your reports to understand and navigate this change as best you can.

This is no easy task, especially when you might not have all the necessary information or have mixed feelings about the changes the organization is facing yourself! That being said, learning how to manage organizational change is a key component of leadership. The 10 Best Organizational Change Management Strategies. Retrieved from champlain.