Organisational Development Assignment

Below you will find information based on a real organisation. The information about the company is anonymised but the data provided is part of real data collected in the last few years. You will find information about what the company does and its structure. You will also find a summary of the data collected in this company. This includes a number of variables that were measured in order to find out about the issues facing the organisation.

The assignment requires you to develop an Organizational Development plan for the company. In particular, the organisation is concerned with the high level of turnover they are experiencing. Using the information provided about the company your goal is to discuss some key ways the organisation may try to address the issue of high turnover. Put simply, what steps would you recommend the organisation take to reduce their level of turnover?

In your plan you should:

• Explain the key challenges facing the organization using the material below
• Offer some insights into the reasons for these challenges drawing on your background reading and engagement with module content and theory.
• Make some recommendations, based on the data and your understanding of module content, which the organization could implement in order to improve its turnover.
• Think about how the organisation should approach the organisational development process. What steps should they take, what is the timeframe, how would they assess the success of the process?
• Explain the limitations of your suggestions.  For example: how feasible are they to implement?  What are their drawbacks?  What factors would make it difficult for the organization to make these alterations?
• Your recommendations should be based on the data provided as well as theory from the course. You should include supporting theory and research with appropriate references.

Your plan should be 2000 words (+/- 10%).  You can include a title page, with content list is appropriate.

Marking guidelines can be found on ELE and follow the University of Exeter General Marking Criteria

Referencing

Always cite the name and date of an author you are quoting (e.g. Smith, 1996; Jones 1988) using the APA 6th method. All sources of material that you use to inform your ideas should be referenced. Direct quotes should be given in quotation marks and accompanied by the relevant page numbers. At the end of your essay, give a full bibliography of all the authors you have used. Guidance on referencing and citation can be found under ‘additional resources’ on ELE.

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Resubmission guidelines: if the module is not passed then the failed assignment(s) will have to be resubmitted.