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Objectives of Development
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Factors (+/-) InfluencingDevelopment
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OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT
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Objectives of Development
To change nature of the workplace. Ourworkers today want feedback on theirperformance, a sense of accomplishment,feelings of value and worth, and commitmentto social responsibility. They need to be moreefficient, to improve their time management.
And, of course, if we are to continue doingmore work with less people, we need tomake our processes more efficient.
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Global markets. Our environments arechanging, and our organizations must alsochange to survive and prosper. We need tobe more responsible to and develop closerpartnerships with our customers. We mustchange to survive, and we argue that we
should attack the problems, not thesymptoms, in a systematic, planned, humanemanner.
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Accelerated rate of change. Taking an open-
systems approach, we can easily identify thecompetitions on an international scale forpeople, capital, physical resources, andinformation.
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OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT
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Obstacles to Development
Lack of education in managing the
reaction to development At the managerial setting, even the term
development management indicates that we don'tproperly teach managers how to manage theirorganizations through development. People'sreactions to development efforts follow areasonably static set of responses.
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People are slow to recognize
development People don't really resist development as a
general rule. However, they often fail to recognizethe extent or importance of development. This isactually a survival mechanism. And while it is inmany ways a good thing, this delay can causeissues when surviving a development requiresquick reaction times.
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Lack of time and energy to do it right
Often as managers, we are faced with a lack oftime and energy to convince our people to adaptto the development. In fact, sometimes we'refaced with a lack of time to even convince themthat a development is needed.
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Obstacles to Development
Complexity of the developments
Delopments we are facing occurring faster and inmore complex patterns than have ever occurredpreviously. The complexity of these developmentsmakes the primary response difficult to identify.
In addition, it can also make identifying the bestway to manage reactions difficult.
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Contradictory developments
Part of the problem involved with the complexityof the developments being dealt with is that manyof the developments are in fact contradictory.
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Contradictory developments
For example, the emergence of the job boardmeant that job seekers could submit applicationswith less effort and greater control. However, italso meant that human resources became quicklyoverloaded, reducing the probability of a job
seeker being selected.
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POSITIVE EFFECTS OFDEVELOPMENT
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Positive Effects of Development
Employee Confidence When you successfully complete a significant development
in your organization, and the employees see that none ofthe fears they held regarding development are realized, youare paving the way for smoother development in the future.
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Employee Confidence One of the positive effects of efficient development
management is that it instills confidence in your staffregarding the management's ability to lead the companyand make good business decisions. This not only makesfuture developments easier, but employee confidence alsomakes day to day decision-making simpler as well.
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Positive Effects of Development
Competitive Advantage The ability for your organization to development helps
maintain your competitive advantage in the marketplace.
For example, if your competition has implemented a neworder-entry system that makes the process of doingbusiness easier on the customers, then your ability to adaptto that development and institute your own order-entrydevelopments helps keep you competitive.
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Competitive Advantage The ability to institute development quicker and more
efficiently than the competition gives you an advantage thatcan help you achieve, or maintain, the status of an industryleader.
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Growth Your company must experience development to experience
growth. You can continue to do things the same way for aslong as you like. But, at some point, your infrastructureneeds to development to accommodate a growing customerbase and industry developments.
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Growth New manufacturing processes, new marketing concepts
and improved ways of reaching your target market allrequire developments within your organization. Yourcompany's ability to facilitate development enables it togrow.
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Dynamic A corporate culture that embraces development is one that
tends to remain dynamic in the marketplace. Becauseemployees are confident that the company can managedevelopment, new ideas flow more freely.
A dynamic atmosphere with an openness to development isa productive and forward-thinking workplace.
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NEGATIVE EFFECTS OFDEVELOPMENT
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Negative Effects to Development
Paradigm Shift
This is one of the major problems of development.This shift pertains to an all-suddenimplementation of development that led tochange. A certain degree of dynamism has beeninvolved, especially gradual change.
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Negative Effects to Development
Maladjustment
Maladjustment pertains to a rapid turn ofcircumstances of management that led toresilience to change. People involved may resistit, some may follow but later on, as they findthemselves as not holding to the grassroots
anymore, try to slowly abandon theirconnectedness with the company.
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References
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Reading, MA, 1969, p. 9. Bennis, W., Organization development: Its nature,
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Beckhard, R. & Harris, R. Organizational Transitions.
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1987. Jacobs, R., Real Time Strategic Change. San
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