MU0011 – Management and Organizational Development

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ASSIGNMENT

DRIVE	SPRING 2016
PROGRAM	MBA
SEMESTER	3
SUBJECT CODE & NAME	MU0011 – Management and Organizational Development
BK ID	B1726
Credit & Marks	4 CREDIT, 60 MARKS

Note: Answer all questions. Kindly note that answers for 10 marks questions should be approximately of 400 words. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.

Question.1. Define organizational development. Discuss the importance of Organizational Development (OD) to Managers?

Highlight some reasons why people resist to change?

Answer:Organizational Development (OD) is a field of research, theory, and practice dedicated to expanding the knowledge and effectiveness of people to accomplish more successful organizational change and performance.

OD is a process of continuous diagnosis, action planning, implementation and evaluation, with the goal of transferring knowledge and skills to organizations to improve their capacity for solving problems and managing future change.

History and Application of Organizational

Question.2. What is OD Intervention? Discuss its characteristics?

Answer:an od intervention can be defined as “the set of structured activities in which selected organization units engage with a task or a sequence of tasks where the task goals are related directly or indirectly to organizational improvement in an od intervention the entire process of diagnosis, alternative generation and making action choices are jointly conducted and od will also examine the process of such diagnosis, action planning and implementation.

Characteristics of od intervention

Question.3. What are the reasons for setting up goals in the Organization? List its advantages and disadvantages.   

Answer:Setting and achieving goals is one of the ways an employee can gauge his development within a company. Goal-setting can be a good motivator, but there are advantages and disadvantages. Without proper planning, setting goals can be as destructive as it can be motivating.

Goals--plans to achieve something--have several purposes in personal and professional settings. The University of New Hampshire explains that goal setters can use the SMART acronym to develop goals. Goals should be specific, measurable, attainable and relevant. They should also have a specific time frame for completion. Setting goals has

Question.4. What do you mean by Learning Organization? List out the attributes of Learning Organization.

Write a short note on impact of technology in Organization?

Answer:A learning organization is the business term given to a company that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself. The concept was coined through the work and research of Peter Senge and his colleagues.Learning organizations develop as a result of the pressures facing modern organizations and enables them to remain competitive in the business environment.

There is a multitude of definitions of a learning organization as

Question.5. Define the term downsizing. List the types of downsizing. Explain the significance, misconceptions and effects of downsizing.

Answer:Downsizing has become a popular topic in recent years. Like many other aspects of the business universe, downsizing has neither totally negative nor positive effects. Your perception usually depends on your role, as employer, employee, investor, vendor or personal situation.

Function: The function of downsizing, regardless of the purpose, is to reduce the number of employees at a company. While the function is always the

Question.6. Define Learning Organizational? List the characteristics of learning organization? Explain seven steps of initiating ‘organizational learning’?

Answer:The concept of a learning organization was first developed by Peter M. Senge in 1990. Dr.Senge is a senior lecturer of leadership and sustainability at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is the founding chairman of the Society of Organizational Learning. His book The Fifth Discipline discusses learning organizations.

According to Dr.Senge, a learning organization is an organization that encourages and facilitates learning in order to continually transform itself to survive and excel in a rapidly changing business environment. The highly complex, interrelated, and integrated global economy of the 21st century presents new challenges to managers and employees attempting

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