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)
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?
