Element Covered in this Assessment:

1. Develop organisation development plan

2. Implement organisation development activities

3. Maintain organisation development program

Task Instructions - Scenario

You are an organisational strategic consultant working on behalf of a private venture capital business. You have been asked to research provide a shortlist of companies with excellent growth prospects in the Australian business marketplace. Your shortlist of seven prospect businesses reputed to have 'good growth prospects' are listed below.

Your client appears interested in your shortlist and has asked you to select two from the prospect list as a viable source of investment, with a final recommendation of one company as the better source of investment, based on your research. As part of your due diligence for your client, you have been asked to produce for your selected two companies an organisational development plan, a proposal for its implementation and its maintenance and evaluation.

Task Requirements:

The following brief requires you to analyse and interpret the organisational development of two of the above chosen businesses with a recommendation to your venture capital investor of which one to invest in or not. You may of course decide that neither company is worthy of investment.

Devise and submit a brief Investment Recommendations Paper (approx. 1,000 words in length) and address the following elements in critiquing the company's organisational development, with a view to your client becoming an investor.

Your client tells you that the capacity a company has to adapt to change, has a positive workplace culture and develops collaborative approaches to business problems is critical to their choice of company to invest in.

Your Research and Recommendations Paper (including your final Recommendations of the extent of your client's investor involvement) should be based on the following:

Investment Recommendations Report

Task A- Develop an organisation development plan

In these task questions, you will be required to develop an organisation - include the following:

1) Identify opportunities (areas of greatest potential) - review of organisation's development needs and objectives
2) Profile the organisation's culture and readiness for organisational development
3) Micro and Macro-environmental factors and issues
4) Determine who will take key roles in the organisational development process
5) Identify areas of the business experiencing problems or that need realignment
6) Determine objectives and strategies for organisational development - TO SMART principles
7) Change management techniques to achieve workplace culture outcomes sought
8) Communication/education plans to achieve objectives in relation to:

• desired work environment and culture
• desired approach to problem-solving and developmental activities

Task B - Implementing Organisational Change Activities

In these task questions, you will be required to recommend organisational development activities and research the methods used to implement the organisation development activities for your two selected companies - include the following:

1) Consultative processes to maximise participation in the organisation development process - for implementing change in areas of greatest potential

2) Team development and training to build collaboration in problem-solving and development

3) Working groups & mechanisms to articulate problems; propose means for problem-solving

4) Managing conflict between individuals and/or groups to achieve consensus or agreement

5) Communicating and managing areas of the business experiencing problems or that need re-alignment -value proposition to the target market

6) Communication/education plans to assist during the change management process (to investors and key stakeholders)

Task C - Maintaining Organisational Development program

In these task questions, you will be required to research the implementation methods used by your selected company to maintain an organisational development program - include the following:

1) Surveys to identify any loss of support for organisation development program and activities

2) In terms of maintaining the organisation development program, relevant activities and interventions that allow for its evaluation and modification

3) Techniques for maintaining, evaluating and modifying your organisation development plan

4) Approaches to analyse successes and identify performance gaps

5) Market trends impacting this industry that may impact targets

6) To what extent do senior management reinforce the organisation development program by ongoing messages of support and appropriate resource allocation?

7) Evaluating your organisation development plans in terms of costs and benefits, including opportunity costs

Task D- Recommendations

Having considered two prospect companies through their organisational development, your final recommendations for which company to invest in - including:

1) Summation of the issues and opportunities for each company

2) Comparison of organisational development for two companies selected

3) Level of investment involvement proposed

4) Prospects for success (or otherwise)