To the writer: This is a “Packback Assignment” where you must first ask an “int
To the writer: This is a “Packback Assignment” where you must first ask an “intriguing question (not super long, for this is your thesis statement) about what you have researched and provide supportive evidence or details from that research and how design components affect each other. Since I am an engineer, it could be based on engineering or whichever subject area the writer chooses to write about. Please check grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, and check the document for plagiarism, as PackBack will reject the writing. Packback also requires that we bold and italicize in various areas and provide a graphical picture or chart that would qualify as a media post.
Assignment:
Chapter 5 of the textbook “Organization Development and Change” discusses the process of understanding the organization and helping managers assess where change is needed either to take advantage of an opportunity (development) or to protect from threats (problems). The book describes three potential levels of diagnosis, the organization, the group and the individual. Further, the book uses an open systems model to describe organizations and each of these levels. An open systems model describes the inputs, the transformation process, the outputs and how it is all influenced by the environment and how the environment’s reactions to the outputs provides feedback to the organizational system. The transformation process has been characterized in the book as the design component. Choose any design component at any level of interest to you, and do some research on that component. Then consider how changing that component would change the whole and how that would impact a change effort.
For example, a design component at the group level is task structure. As an engineer, for example, how a task is structured is important to the outcome of your work. So do some additional reading on some of the ways that task structure is conceptualized. Then think about the ways that a change in task structure might affect the other design components (goal clarity, team functioning, group composition and group norms). Then further think about how that change might make group level change easier or more difficult.
Reference:
– Cummings Reading – Chapter 5 (attachment)
– PodCast: Diagnosis
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