MGT 403
Week 11: Interactive activity
11.1 Learning Outcomes:
Demonstrate effective knowledge management skills to utilise knowledge management tools for the benefits of the organization.
11.2 Action Required:
Click on the following link to watch a short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwclWL2N_k
11.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
- How is knowledge management different from organization learning. Is organizational learning same thing as knowledge management.
11.4 Instructions
- Answer the question in test your knowledge section.
- Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week 11: Interactive learning Discussion)
MGT404
11.1 Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the characteristics of transformational change. (MLO 18.1)
- Explain the organization design intervention for both domestic and worldwide situations. (MLO 18.2)
- Learn about the integrated strategic change intervention and understand how it represents the revolutionary and systemic characteristics of transformational change. (MLO 18.3)
- Explain the rationale and logic behind organization collaboration. (MLO 20.1)
- Describe and apply organization development (OD) interventions that enable mergers and acquisitions. (MLO 20.2)
11.2 Action Required:
- Required Readings:
Chapter 18: Transformational Change.
Chapter 20: Trans-organizational Change.
TEXTBOOK: Cummings, T., & Worley, C. (2015). Organization development and change. (10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning. ISBN#: 13 9781133190455 (print), ISBN#: 13 9781285800967 (e-text).
- Recommended Readings:
Pandey, S., & Sharma, R. R. K. (2011). Organization Development Interventions for Prospectors: A Theoretical Framework and its Empirical Validation. Global Business & Management Research, 3(1), 79–95.
Organization Development Interventions for Prospectors: A Theoretical Framework and its Empirical Validation
- Videos:
11.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
- Briefly explain the integrated strategic change process.
- Discuss some of the common drivers of transformational change in organizations and provide examples.
- Briefly discuss organization design characteristics for worldwide strategic orientations.
- Discuss the main differences between mechanistic and organic organization designs from your point of view.
- Discuss the logic behind the trans organizations systems.
- How organization development (OD) interventions enable mergers and acquisitions.
11.4 Instructions
Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week11: Interactive learning Discussion).
12.1 Learning Outcomes:
- Describe organization development (OD) interventions that help organizations balance economic, social, and environmental objectives. (MLO 21.1)
- Describe sustainable management organizations (SMOs) and how OD can assist in their design and development. (MLO 21.2)
- Describe global social change organizations and how to adopt OD practices to develop them. (MLO 21.3)
12.2 Action Required:
- Required Readings:
Chapter 21: Organization Development for Economic, Ecological, and Social Outcomes.
TEXTBOOK: Cummings, T., & Worley, C. (2015). Organization development and change. (10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning. ISBN#: 13 9781133190455 (print), ISBN#: 13 9781285800967 (e-text).
- Recommended Readings:
Brown, L. & Covey, Jane & Leach, Mark. (2004). Organization Development for Social Change.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228263961_Organization_Development_for_Social_Change
12.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
- Discuss how (OD) interventions help organizations to achieve their economic, social, and environmental objectives.
- Public and nonprofit organizations can deliver better social outcomes by systematically engaging in OD interventions. Do you agree? Why or why not?