Purpose

This assignment aims to measure your ability to analyze a real organization's need for change and apply OD concepts and principles (need for change, impact on individuals, groups, and organization, renewing processes) to that need for change.

Overview

Research a needed change in a real organization. This can be an organization in which you currently work or volunteer, one in which you worked in the past, or an organization with which you are very familiar. This and the following assignments will prompt you to think critically about the needed change, what worked well to move the organization forward, and what did not work, which contributed to the change not accomplishing what was intended.

Action Items

1. In this course, you will research a needed change in a real organization and apply what you learn about organizational development.
   • The organization you will be researching
   • The change effort you propose or which is occurring/has occurred which is not successful
   • Why you think the change effort is not succeeding (cultural resistance, under-resourced, employee resistance, poor management or leadership, etc.)