Organizational Development (OD) Intervention to Improve the Operation

Title of the Case:

OD Intervention to Improve the Operation of a Materials Department in Relation to the Whole Organization

Problems:

1. What practices in the case would be helpful to apply in your organization?
2. How might you modify the practices in the case to better suit your organization?
3. What did you learn overall from the case?

Answer:

• In this case, OD intervention comprises three distinct parts; these are the administrative, behavioral and technological.  I think it is a best practice because it tried to distinguish one from the other and give focus on each.   Each was given equal weight. 

• I will follow the OD intervention introduced in this case although it will be tailored accordingly to the problem in my organization.  I will not focus only on administrative but as well  as the behavioral and technological problem in my organization and tried to make a strategy on each to answer the impending problem.

• The important realizations I discovered from this case are the following:

                 a.       Owners should circumspectly chose a Manager that would stay long in their organization because a high turnover would harm the company a lot in its operations;

                b.      A high turnover should alarm the owners of the organization.  There must be something in their organization that is not worth staying with by the previous managers so it should be checked.  It’s really incredible that in a span of five years, the company had six managers!  It should be a calling to the owners to diagnose their organization.