Assignment*

For this module’s discussion attach a draft of your project for peer feedback. For your initial post, summarize your course project and share any difficulties you may have encountered as you researched your topic.

In your response post, choose another student’s summary and provide constructive feedback on their project topic. Share some revisions that the student could implement to successfully overcome any difficulties that were encountered during the project (this will allow you to put your new OD skills into action!).

Pervious assignment*

Walmart is one of the largest companies in America; it has solidified its position as the biggest retailer in America and the world over with several branches all around the globe. Walmart prides itself in affordable products for everyday Americans. This is a promise it seems to have kept so as to solidify its place at the top.

Recently, the company has been going through a number of challenges inclusive of lowered stock prices and very low sales, most of its customers are not in a position to afford to shop because of the state of the current economy and its inability to fully penetrate the online market. Economists have termed it as a period of a “perfect storm” and as such, there is a need for change. The fundamental problems affecting the performance of Walmart is its management.

Walmart management has failed to fulfill its required expectations. It has failed to provide a sufficient online presence considering the size of the store. The administration has also failed to provide its customers with adequate services. Service provision failures are evident in the untrained employees who are not able to cater to all the customer needs. Service provision has also failed because the gap between the managers and the customers has widened and as such the customers no longer feel valued.

Some of the recommendation that could prove useful to the Walmart owners and management team include taking the time to re-evaluate its service provision. Walmart should invest in training its employees to ensure they can cater to all the customer needs. Another recommendation is to benchmark from other companies who have succeeded in establishing a strong online presence. Taking time to learn what they can do to improve their presence from others could prove very useful.

Reference

Wal-Mart faces big hurdles – Yahoo Finance. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-faces-big-hurdles-125013357–finance.html

*PROJECT OUTLINE2Change in management in an organization

Purpose for organizational development change

•Change in business development usually enhanced by the quality of the business organization,

aim and formulates a business development strategy.

•When formulating business development goals and comprises new market and product

development.

•Business organization, structure, processes and international development regarding acquisition

and disposals is also partly subjective and scientific based on the wishes and feeling of business

owners or CEO.

Problems resulting from the organizational changes

•Problems that come with this supposed variations in the business environment are such as

employees and managers resistance which typically addressed proactively because strength and

persistence can threaten a project.

•Resistance management is usually a process and tool used by executives and managers with

change team support to manage resistance by the employees during the process.

Solutions regarding the problems faced

•In handling the problems created by staff and managers, one need to recognize that change is

not a one-way street and that employee involvement is highly needed whenever taking that

important decision.

PROJECT OUTLINE3•Employees feedback implementation is the key factor in the change management process for

instance change managers can take into considerations of analysing the comments and implement

corrective measures to ensure full adoption the changes proposed and implementation.

Best practices to help in the changes

•Whenever it comes to appropriate methods of dealing with the changes within the organization,

you will find that the main issue being defensiveness and people’s resistance to new faces within

the company and also the shifting of their official positions to other positions within the

organization.

•Whenever this challenge is overcome, you may start the comparison between what’s happening

and what the team set out to do and even how people feel about the whole procedure.

•Protocols are to be observed diligently with proper introductions be willing to ask for help,

introductions and permissions to.

Plan of organizational changes

•These being the final stage where you can sit back from the whole program and start an

evaluation of failures and success and even mark changes for the next program or project. This

part of ongoing continuous improvements in change management and ultimately lead to the

modification competency.

•Along with change management process, systems are created to manage the whole system to

ensure success in projects avoid losing key employees to minimize adverse impacts changes in the

company’s customers and productivity.

PROJECT OUTLINE4International contingency in organizational changes

•Early adoption, wins and long term successes must be recognized and celebrated because it is

the key element in change that shows that employees are appreciated. Adoption, however, needs

to be done to ensure there are no slip backs into their old ways.

CONCLUSION

•It is likely that you’ll have to write a report and recommendations afterward. In any case, you

should plan lots of questions which help you know how they feel about a condition or situation

and what should be done to improve these areas for better performance. Let there be no surprises

and always do your best to be constructive.

•Look at the customers’ relationship materials as well because they will give you brief highlights

on what is best to be focused on. Try on looking at the employee motivation survey materials too.

PROJECT OUTLINE5

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