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Master of
Business Administration - MBA Semester 3
MU0011–Management
and Organisational Development-4 Credits
(Book ID:
B1726)
Assignment
(60 Marks)
Note: Answers
for 10 marks questions should be approximately of 400 words. Each question is
followed by evaluation scheme. Each Question carries 10 marks 6 X 10=60.
Q1. Define organizational development.
What are the characteristics of Organizational Development?
Answer. Organization development (OD)
is a deliberately
planned effort to increase an organization's relevance and viability.
Organizational Development (OD) can be described as the systematic process to
change the culture, system and behavior of organization. It is process that
helps in solving organizational problems and achieving organizational
objectives. Organizational Development works as important mechanism that helps
in impressing the organization and its employee through planned
Q2. Describe the following theories
of planned change: ‘Lewin’s change model’ and ‘Action research model’.
Answer. The concept of "change
management" is a familiar one in most businesses today. But, how
businesses manage change (and how successful they are at it) varies enormously
depending on the nature of the business, the change and the people involved.
And a key part of this depends on how far people within it understand the
change process.
Q3. 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.
"Interventions"
are principal learning processes in the "action" stage of
organization development.
Q4. What are the ethical dilemmas in
practicing OD?
Answer. An ethical dilemma is typically described as a complex
situation that involves a conflict between different morals. Ethical dilemmas
are commonly found in medicine. For example, deciding whether or
Q5. Define the term downsizing. List
the types of downsizing. Explain the significance, misconceptions and effects
of downsizing.
Answer. Downsizing:
In a
business enterprise, downsizing is reducing the number of employees on the
operating payroll. Some users distinguish downsizing from a layoff, with
downsizing intended to be a permanent downscaling and a layoff intended to be a
temporary downscaling in which employees may later be
Q6. Organizational learning is an
area of knowledge within organizational theory that studies models and theories
about the way an organization learns and adapts. Describe the seven steps of
initiating such ‘organizational learning’.
Answer. Steps:
1. Establish an integrated solutions
team - The trend today, given the statutory, policy, and regulatory mandates
discussed in the introduction, is that acquisitions are conducted by teams of
people, working cooperatively toward a common goal. This is the model used by
leading or breakthrough organizations, which have come to recognize the
limitations of clearly defined roles,
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