Ashford BUS 370 Week 5 Final Paper Action Research Project

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BUS 370 Week 5 Final Paper Action Research Project

Assignment

Action Research Project CLOs: 1,2,3,4,5,6. Due by Day 7. You have been hired as a consultant (to your current organization, previous organization, or a fictional organization). Describe and analyze a human resource/organizational problem(s) and recommend an organizational development strategy (ies). Provide a rationale as to why you think this approach will help. This will require a practitioner analysis of the organizational problem of interest and an academic literature review of similar organizational problems and organizational development strategy (ies) that you believe will be most beneficial in solving the problem. Also, provide an evaluation plan for the proposed intervention(s).

The plan should have the following headings: a. Problem Identification

o Description of the organization o Context of the problem:

Context of the problem:

􏰀 How do you know it’s a problem?

􏰀 Specifically what is the problem (select from list below)?

􏰁 Turnover

Job Satisfaction

􏰁 Diversity

􏰁 Performance Appraisals

􏰁 Downsizing

􏰁 Training & Development

b. Needs Assessment and Diagnosis

Data collection

Data analysis

c. Proposed Organization Development Interventions/Strategy(ies)

Requiredresources

Timeline

Anticipatedresistance

Potential benefit(s), i.e. cost savings

d. Suggested Evaluation Approach

e. Summary/Conclusions