ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

1.    Why is diagnosis so vital in organizational change programs?

It is because through diagnosis, we can locate in which part of the organization structure is effective and which is not. Through this we can also see where the problem lies, and we can make necessary actions about it.

2.    Explain the concept of organization intervention and why any particular or organization change can be considered an intervention.

       Organization intervention is a specific action or program undertaken to focus the change process on particular targets. In this case organization change can be considered as intervention because change means something will be modify in the structure of organization and as you can see it is an intervention in an organization.

3.    Might some managers attempt to implement a particular intervention, such as TQM without first diagnosing whether the intervention would be appropriate for their organization’s problem.

This might cause the organization goes down. Like we all know a did without further planning might lead to chaos. This kind of intervention, without prior diagnosis of the problem will be a threat to the organization itself. Every step in an organization must be sure, we don’t know maybe it might bring the organization in a worse scenario, it will be a waste of effort and time. An effective management should have enough knowledge before making such steps.

4.    Why is it important for managers to reduce the resistance to change exhibited or covertly practiced by employees?

       It is because one of qualities needed in an organization is flexibility. One must be flexible in order to face different hindrances that will come in the organization. Change is a part of life as well as every organization. Also team building and behaviors of employees toward change can be the main key for the success or failure of such modification. There are reasons why members resist change, at first they are not that aware of the real reason and benefits of it. Aside from that what lacking is the knowledge of what will be happen if this change will be implemented. Some people are afraid to lose what already had if they will embrace such change. But still whatever it is the important is the manager knows how he will handle such employees for them to become cooperative.

5.    Evaluate the ethical issues associated with downsizing an organization by reducing its labor force to increase the organization’s long-run change of survival. What other ethical issues can you identify in the practice of organizational development as you understand it thus far?

I think downsizing an organization by reducing its labor force cannot be considered as unethical one. If this kind of change is needed in order to an organization to continue in running then why not. Come to think of it, reducing the labor force is better even though it means some of the employees will lose their job than when the organization totally fall and all of the member of that organization will suffer.

6.    Management must remain committed to the effort throughout all its steps, from diagnosis through implementation and evaluation.

In an organizational change it all starts with the diagnosis of the problem to the evaluation, effort is the passion and time given towards the said particular activity. In this case we must commit all of our efforts all throughout so that there can be an assurance in the result of each and every activity that we will do. An organization will not undergo a change for a second so we must be very patience in every step of it. This efforts that we will give will not only account for the success of the organization but also provides such contentment in every member that they have done their job well.

7.    How is the appreciative inquiry approach to an organizational change different from problem solving approach?

Appreciative Inquiry is an organizational change process that focuses on diagnosis and presentation of positive characteristics of change, the process, and outcomes it also means to see the best in others and to create enough development programs while problem solving approach means following a step by step procedure in order to come up to a decision and application of it.

8.    What would be characteristics of an organization or situation for which the use of reason would be an effective approach for managing change? Are such organizations and situations relatively rare?

It will be easy part for the employees if there will be answers for their question. And one of those is the reasons why such changes are needed to be implemented. They will be more cooperative if the reasons of such changes will be understood. But I think this kind of approach is rare to happen because most of the managers will just direct their employees to do whatever they wanted, the authority is always at stake.

9.    Explain the difficulties that you would encounter in attempting to obtain diagnostic information from members of two groups that believe they’re competing for scarce resources.

It will be a great disaster, because both groups will give different information, different techniques just not to be overcome by the other groups. They might not give proper information because they are afraid that those information will help the other group. Competition is a kind of situation where sometimes one will do everything in order to win.

10. Explain why a change program should be evaluated and why such an evaluation is so difficult to conduct.

Evaluation is needed to discover is such change helps for the growth of the organization, also to discover if such change really improve or worsen the situation of the organization. Through this correction can be done. It will be difficult in a way that it should includes all the scope of the organization, because if only limited area of the organization will be evaluated, the result will not be accurate, because the result speaks for a limited area also.

Case for analysis: Bayer’s Major Changes in One plant

One of the first changes that occur to Bayer is the different ownership within only in the beginning of the acquisition of the facility in Myerstown, also the dissolve of workforce in a year. Aside from that because of the different changes that is happening, employees become sceptical in different programs that the managers are implementing. Because employees are not sure what it is looks like to work to a German, they are not getting the position as the managers. Aside from that, different programs of the past management failed and most of the employees are expecting same failures. But as time goes by as the voice of the employees were heard and their doubt fades, the organization starts to have smooth flow.

This story only shows that change can be somewhat advantageous in the sense that it can brought the organization on the top. It also wanted to day that if each and every one will help and become candid about different issues they will be successful, because they are just in the same ground. As a manager, listening to everyone is also a key for them not to resist change and for the organization work in a common goal.  Resistance to change is only a way to see if how well the organization will work even each different opinions have. And last but not the list it only shows that each people in an organization played an important role.