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Department of Business Administration
Organization Design and Development- MGT 404
Assignment 2
Marks: 10
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the strategic role of change in the organization and its impact on organizational performance (Lo 2.9)
- Identify and apply the basic steps of the organizational development process (Lo 2.5)
- Define the human, structural and strategic dimensions of the organizational development (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)
- Be sure to use at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed references in support of each answer and also incorporate the key concepts from the course.
- This Assignment comprise of a Case study.
- Assignment is to be submitted by each student individually.
- Q.1 Discuss why ‘strategic orientation’ is fundamental to diagnosis in OD. Support your answer using two examples from this case study. (1.5 marks) (Lo 2.9)
- Q.2 Explain why it is important for a group design to be congruent with the larger organization design. Support your answer using an example from this case study (1.5 marks) (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)
- Q.3 Based on your understanding of the group-level diagnostic model, describe and evaluate each of the Ortiv’s team design components:
- Q.4 Discuss how the group design of Ortiv’s Glass Corporation could positively or negatively impacts on the diagnosis of design components at the individual level. (2 Marks) (Lo 2.9)
Assignment Instructions:
Assignment Workload:
Assignment-1
- Please read the case study entitled as “Top Management Team at Ortiv Glass Corporation.†available in the textbook “Organization Development & Change†9th edition by Cummings, T and Worley, C and answer the following questions:
Assignment Question(s):
– Goal clarity (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
– Task structure (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
– Team functioning (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
– Group composition (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
– Group norms (1 mark) (Lo 2.5)
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