Department of Business Administration
Organization Design and Development- MGT 404
Assignment 2, Total Marks: 10
Course Learning Outcomes:
● Describe the basic steps of the organizational development process.
● Analyze the human, structural and strategic dimensions of the organizational development.
Part 1 (5 marks):
Please refer to application 5.2 entitled as “Top Management Team at Ortiv Glass Corporation.” available in your textbook and answer the following:
- Discuss why ‘strategic orientation’ is fundamental to diagnosis in OD. Demonstrate your answer using two examples from this application.
- Describe and evaluate each of the Ortiv’s team design components:
- Goal clarity
- Task structure
- Team functioning
- Group composition
- Group norms
Part 2 (5 marks):
Please refer to figure 5.2 in your textbook (comprehensive model for diagnosing organizational system) and answer the following:
- Provide a brief description of a hypothetical organization and explain the three key inputs (or environmental types) that affect the way such organization could be designed.
- Propose a job position and describe each of its potential design components at the individual level.
Answers:
Part 1:
A.1
A.2
Part 2:
A.3
A.4