Month: September 2018

Leavitt’s model is an open system that  specifies four important variables to assess within organizations which are task, structure, technological variables and human variables.  Environmental factors, inputs and outputs are not considered, although they are in other open systems.   The application of this model includes examining each element and how changes in each element will…

Kotter’s eight-step organizational change model can be helpful to OD practitioners in making a change initiative successful because initiating and implementing change at the organizational level is a difficult and complex task and often met with resistance.  According to Dr. Kotter, approximately 70% of all major change efforts in organizations fail. After listening to our assigned…

We learned in module two that assessment and feedback and training needs assessment share some core commonalities in which both are closing a gap and are centered on data collection methods. However, they are different in terms of purpose, scope, outcome, and the way the assessment is conducted. In organization diagnosis we are focusing on…