13 Jan My role as an effective

Week 1 Learning Activity

Given today’s global and domestic business environment and economic conditions, what two organization development (OD) goals, objectives, or characteristics do you consider most important and worthwhile to understand? Why?

Use the following headings to organize and format your Response:

Important OD Goals, Objectives or Characteristics

1. [goal, objective or characteristic]

Explanation of importance

2. [goal, objective or characteristic]

Explanation of importance

Analyze data, information, and ideas from the Week 1 readings and other resources listed in the Course Schedule. Create a Response evidencing and citing at least three required readings/resources, primarily from this week’s schedule. Also, identify, analyze, and integrate at least one well founded, credible outside source. Integrate and use bold font for at least three organizational change concepts, methods, theories, strategies, principles, or practices Use examples to support your claims. Cite all reference sources using APA format. Use in-text parenthetical citations, for example, (Cummings & Worley, 2005, p. 17)—please include page number(s), or other location such as chapter and section heading, or URL—within your Response content, and full citations at end (see Content/Using APA). Review the Discussion Guidelines to clarify expectations for successfully completing this question. Refer to the Week 1 Overview to reinforce the course learning outcome(s) and key concepts addressed in this week’s conference.

Learning Activity #2–Workplace Application Activity

What’s your role in organization development? Would you make a effective OD practitioner? Why or why not? How might your work style, behavior preferences, skills, and abilities contribute as a manager/change agent or employee participating in organization development? (Another way to think about this question is would an OD practitioner find you an easy or difficult employee to work with in a changing organizational environment? Why or why not?) Last, in a few sentences, synthesize your key self-learning (i.e., take-away, ah-ha moment, self-enlightenment) from this exercise.

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Use the following headings to organize and format your Response:

My role as an effective OD practitioner

My work style vis-à-vis OD practitioner goals

Key Self-learning

Review data, information, and ideas from the Week 1 readings and resources. Create a Response evidencing and citing at least two required readings/resources, primarily from this week’s schedule. Also, identify, analyze, and integrate at least one well founded, credible outside source. Integrate and use bold font for at least two organizational change concepts, methods, theories, strategies, principles, or practices (at least one per factor/aspect). Use examples to support your claims. Cite all reference sources using APA format. Use in-text parenthetical citations, for example, (Cummings & Worley, 2005, p. 17)—please include page number(s), or other location such as chapter and section heading, or URL—within your Response content, and full citations at end (see Content/Using APA). Review the Discussion Guidelines to clarify expectations for successfully completing this question.