Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Diagnosis
- Diagnosis definition
- Collaborative process between
organisational members and OD
consultants -> collect info., analyse it,
draw conclusions -> action planning
& intervention
- specify exact nature of the
problem, identify underlying
causal forces, provide a basis
to select effective and
feasible change strat. & tech.
- 1. Entering process
- Clarify organisation
issue
- Determine
relevant client
- Assess climate for
change
- Select a
consultant
- Effective contract:
clear mutual
expectations, time
and resources,
ground rules
- Interpersonnal Issues: Client (exposed, vulnerable, lose contrrol) &
OD practitioner (expectations, empathy, competency, dependency...)
- 2. Diagnosis Process:main steps
- Agreement on the pb,
causes, process to use,
bring a solution
- Consultant : not expert,
facilitate diagnosis,
system needs to learn
- 1. select a conceptual
model for diag.
- 2.Clarify info requirements
- 3. Choose best way to gather data
- 4. Gather information
- 5. Analysis
- 6. Interpretation
- 7. Feedback (essential: receive info & back it up, determine process)
- 3. Key to effective
diagnosis: knowing what to
look for, recognize how the
levels affect each other
- 4. Diagnosis Models
- Describe relationship between
different features of the org°, its
context and effectiveness
- Areas to look, Q to ask ->
assess how an org° functions
- Based on Research findings
and consultants' experience
- Focus on: org° envt (PESTEL), internal
alignment (Weisbord), internal and external
alignment (SWOT Burk-Litwin)
- Open Systems Model: Inputs (info, energy, people) -
Transformations (social & technological components) -
Outputs (good, services, ideas) => feedback (McKinsey 7S)
- Properties of systems: boundaries,
feedback, equifinality, alignment/fit
- Org° as an organic entity. This model
is static but org° are not!
- Weisbord's six box model : Purpose,
Structure, Rewards, Helpful Mechanisms,
Relationships => leadership
- Burke-Litwin causal model of organisational performance and
change; more complicated to sell, comprehensive model,
don't assess leadership
- Organisation-Level: Inputs (general env., industry
structure) - Design components (technology, strat.,
HR... -> Culture) - Outputs (Org° effectiveness)
- Some unstructured analysis
- Choosing model: relevance to
issues, cause & effect relationship,
most weight, highlight the right
aspects
- Dangers
- confidentiality
- Over Diagnosis
- Crisis diagnosis
- Consultant's
favourite
diagnosis
- Diagnosis of symptoms