Question

An American Internet Technology company has merged with a Canadian Social Media company. Because of this merger, performance is not as optimum as the executives would have hoped; morale is low, and stress is up. The new company has decided to hire you as an Organizational Development consultant. They have tasked you with finding out the issues and what they should do next to get back on track.

Instructions

Now that you have secured your role as an Organizational Development consultant, you are now tasked with determining a diagnostic and intervention process. You will need to demonstrate to management how using the chosen diagnostic process will be used in the new company to help increase the efficiency of the organization.

The following questions should be included in your business, professional report:

Describe how you select a diagnostic process to use for this organizational development cultural change.

Given the current situation, what are some of the process interventions you recommend for the newly merged company to ensure effective work teams?

How would you collect the data needed for the organizational development program?

Discuss some organizational development strategies that, as the consultant, you would use to create the necessary change.

Answer 1

To collect sufficient information consultant mjst survey teams using focus groups discussion to know key issues, urgent problems and organisations behaviour towards employees and than aggregate data and generate strategic plans.

Organisation development cultural change requires adoption and designing of new cultural elements and recruitment based on cultural fitment and diversity from backgrounds having similar experience  

The organisation needs to carry intensive training programmes for new culture and newer vision and goals and ensure salary compensation is linked to team performance. More over the teams must be redeployed based on skills and talents and new groups should be made which ensure all teamshave sufficient armour to counter act any challenging situation.

Optimum performance comes from motivation, employees engagement and building strong leadership pipeline which demonstrates participative leadership and cross function collaboration.