1: Using an organization with which you are familiar, identify its corporate culture and the elements of its observable culture. What do you think would need change in order to facilitate innovation? What role would organizational development play in overcoming resistance to change?
2: Using an organization with which you are familiar, identify ways through which feedforward, concurrent, and feedback controls can be used to assure the high quality of a final outcome. How do these controls lead to effective management?
3: Discuss ways a leader might modify the existing culture of an organization to rally members around a common high performance goal?
4: Providing relevant, timely learning opportunities for employees brings them together and facilitates “ownership’. of the organization and empowerment. When a company can achieve this, it has transformed from just a business to a powerful force of like-minded individuals committed to a “shared vision”. This is organizational culture at its best. Have you seen this in action? What organizations have been able to accomplish this and what were the results?