Organizational Development Review - Change, Communication and Motivation

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The first text with "Workplace Design : a new managerial imperative" deals with the management of the work place. Indeed, due to the change of work nature (more knowledge-based leads to team-based and collaborative, time pressured, dependent on social and technological skills), organizational structure (less hierarchical and decision authority), workforce composition (for example "creative class" or age diversity) and tools (for instance Internet), companies should adapt themselves in order to remain competitive and offer the best conditions for the work environment..

The work place design is part of the work environment and incorporates four dimensions : the financial management, the organization design, the information technology and the facilities management.

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[...] We can also mention that innovation is significant in the change process. Secondly, there is the motivation concept which is notably important in the project management. The motivation can lead to a true team work which requires a good collaboration between team members. Finally, there is the communication idea between employees and how to be efficient in the communication process. [...]

[...] The most important idea is the communication of this change which is made by Webcast. Procter & Gamble should manage the human resources issues (employment, compensation for examples) of the possible outsourcing operations of its services and the future in moving forward to change. The sixth text The Portman Hotel Company” deals about the implementation problems of a new service philosophy. Indeed, the Hotel has implement new human resources policy and practice to motivate personal: contract (eleven rights), organization (more service and less management), union (local) and recruiting (initiative, helpful, talented). [...]

[...] The hospital has chosen to increase the number of patients and manage a plan to go head to head with the Brigham hospital; create a macro collaboration, invested money to support clinical. The main tool that they look for to manage the change process is the leadership. The next article One More Time How do you motivate employees is about the employees motivation notably by jobs enrichment with responsibilities and tasks. There are different kinds of stimulation like faire salaries but there also exists intrinsic rewards with promotion possibilities. We can quote other systems with KITA literally: to administer a kick in the pants. [...]

[...] Organizational Development Review - Change, Communication and Motivation Looking at all the cases taken together, what are the THREE themes that are most important? Looking at all the cases taken together, the three themes that are most important are : the change, the communication and the motivation. The first case with “Workplace Design : a new managerial imperative” deals with the management of the work place. Indeed, due to the change of work nature (more knowledge-based leads to team-based and collaborative, time pressured, dependent on social and technological skills), organizational structure (less hierarchical and decision authority), workforce composition (for example “creative class” or age diversity) and tools (for instance Internet), companies should adapt themselves in order to remain competitive and offer the best conditions for the work environment . [...]

[...] Henry Tam has composed the best team even if there were some conflicts and tensions. MGI has been successful but there also is a lack of leadership within the group, consistent organization in orders carried out, culture need to be reinforced in term of values and the team work needs to be improved. When thinking about organizational development, what are the THREE most important things companies could learn from the cases in this course? The first thing that we can learn from the cases in this course is how to manage the change thanks to an effective leader -manager. [...]