Trident MGT423 2019 MAY Module 2 Case Latest Question # 00602963 Subject: Education Due on: 07/12/2019 Posted On: 07/12/2019 04:19 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.6/5

MGT423
Organizational Development and Change

Module 2
Case

LARGE GROUP INTERVENTIONS

Case Assignment

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First and foremost, remember to go very
carefully through all of the required materials before starting this
assignment. There are two short videos and two short articles, plus two
in-depth book chapters to go through. There are also some optional readings in
the background materials that you can use for your paper. It is important to
make sure you understand the ins and outs of Open Space Technology and Future
Search before starting on this assignment, so make sure to go through the
readings and videos carefully before you start on this paper.

For this assignment, you will be going
through four scenarios. For each scenario, cite at least two of the readings
from the background readings to support your answer. You need to cite at least
four of the readings total for your paper—these can include both required and
optional readings listed in the background materials. Your paper should be 4–5
pages in length:

Suppose you win the lottery. Not sure what
to do with all of your money, on an impulse you decide to buy a local college
as you want to make a positive impact in your community. However, you soon find
yourself a bit over your head as all day you have employees or students coming
to your office with all kinds of advice, suggestions for changes that should be
made, complaints, etc. Never having run a college before, you are a bit
confused about how to deal with all of this input and you don’t really have a
good idea about what to focus on. The college has about 300 employees and 800
students and want to find a way to get some more organized input and creative
ideas for improving the college. Should you use Open Space Technology, Future
Search, or neither? Explain your reasoning and justify your answer using at
least two of the readings from the background materials.

A video game company starts out with five
undergraduate students living in a dorm, but rapidly grows within three years
to around 50 employees and $10 million a year in annual revenues. While the
company is still expected rapid growth, there is still sharp tension between
the very young video game designers and the older and more experienced
executives who run the finance and marketing departments. In particular, the
younger employees strive to develop new video games that are unique and much
different than any other games available. However, the more experienced executives
wish to take a more conservative route and come out with games that are similar
to popular games produced by their competitors. The five founding partners are
not sure which of these two directions to take and wish to receive input from
all of their employees through some type of formal process. Should the CEO use
Open Space Technology, Future Search, or neither? Explain your reasoning and
justify your answer using at least two of the readings from the background
materials.

An insurance company has most of its
employees in three different departments – sales, accounting, and information
technology. The CEO is always receiving input from the sales department, as
most of the salesforce is very outgoing and they don’t hesitate to give their
opinions or make requests. On the other hand, employees in accounting and
information technology tend to be quiet and shy and rarely speak up. The CEO
notices that there is considerably higher turnover in the accounting and
information technology departments, and thus becomes concerned that perhaps
employees in these departments are leaving because they are dissatisfied with
decisions the CEO has made or because they feel the salesforce is overly
favored. There are about 50 employees in each department. The CEO wishes to find
a process by which a wider range of employee input can be obtained. Should the
CEO use Open Space Technology, Future Search, or neither? Explain your
reasoning and justify your answer using at least two of the readings from the
background materials.

A CEO initiates an Open Space Technology
conference. At the start of the conference, the CEO provides a list of topics
he wants covered and also gives his opinion on what kind of outcomes he wants
from the conference. He also makes attendance at the conference mandatory. When
the conference starts, participants all volunteer to give sessions on the
topics proposed by the CEO. A few participants propose to give sessions on
other topics not mentioned by the CEO, but very few employees come to these
sessions and instead go to the sessions covering topics suggested by the CEO.
At the end of the conference, the CEO is presented with a carefully worded
summary of the conference and given conclusions that the CEO wanted to hear.
However, after the conference ends and employees go back to work they are very
slow at implementing the recommendations from the conference. What do you think
went wrong? Which major principles or concepts of Open Space Technology do you
think the CEO violated? Explain your reasoning, and cite Leith (1996) and at
least one other source on Open Space Technology to support your answer.

Assignment Expectations

Answer the assignment questions directly.

Stay focused on the precise assignment
questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing
general background materials.

Make sure to use reliable and credible
sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or
business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the
Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

Reference your sources of information with
both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a
High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations.
Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My
Resources in the TLC portal.