M4D2: Organizational Development
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Abstract
- Select a company that is experiencing profound change.
- Briefly, summarize the change in question.
- Describe how organizational development could be a useful tool for that organization to consider as it embarks on its intention to change its organization.
M4D2: Organizational Development
The process of Organizational Development (OD) is a fundamental entity to provide an overall change in an organization to improve its efficiency, performance, and capacity. The OD process seals the organization’s vulnerabilities and strengthens its ability to function efficiently and in a competitive manner as the market continues to diversify rapidly.
For example, the FORD CEO Alan Mullaly embarked on a process to transform the company from its past failures turning it back to a fully competitive company in the industry. Following a continuous underperformance of Ford Motor Company, the company was apparently broken for years. In the process of turning around the performance of Ford Motor Company since taking over, CEO Alan Mullaly introduced a series of organizational changes to achieve an overall revitalization of the company (Kraemer, 2015). The experience in 2006, being its worst loss in the history of $12.7 billion, Mullaly was determined to induce effective leadership to steer the organizational development and lead to a successful comeback of the company. The main strategies in the OD process entailed realigning of personal leadership, focusing on what’s best for the company, long-term goals and strategic plans; authenticity, integrity, and generating the return.
The implementation of OD is an essential and critical tool towards implementing change and inducing adequate performance capacity of an organization. The OD process assesses the company’s operations to root out vulnerability points and ventures, and replace them with new and efficient capabilities to manage the organization (McLean, 2005). As well, the OD structures the organization to best suit the purpose of strategic plans in place for further transformations and developments. The OD process helps the organization to set out the best standards as it embarks on developing a new plan and assure of the organizational capacity to handle and maintain the agenda in an objective manner.
References
Kraemer, H. (2015). “How Ford CEO Alan Mullaly Turned A Broken Company Into The Industry’S Comeback Kid”. Quartz, https://qz.com/431078/how-ford-ceo-alan-mullaly-turned-a-broken-company-into-the-industrys-comeback-kid/.
McLean, G. (2005). Organization development: Principles, processes, performance. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.