BHO0202 Assignment 2 Managing Organisational Design and Change
March 14, 2018Unit 09: Empowering Users in Health and Social Care
March 14, 2018Assessment Item 3 – Organisational analysis
Objective
The primary purpose of this assessment is to assist you to develop skills in the use of change processes and management theories and models in the analysis of a business situation that has organization and structural change and development concerns. The assignment requires you to analyze the current situation, and suggest practical and probable solutions.
The secondary purpose of this assignment is to allow you to apply your research, analysis, critical thinking, and written communication skills, particularly the ability to write an organizational analysis report.
Task
An organization for analysis will be provided on Moodle; there will be several questions to answer about the organization. The focus of the organizational analysis will be relevant to Topics Six to 12. You are to analyze the organization in a report that is not more than 2000 words in length (+/- 10%). You must use a minimum of 12-16 academic resources.
The case study
Organization: B.R. Richardson Timber Products Corporation
Case Study 6 in your textbook (Waddell, Creed, Cumming & Worley, 2017).
Your organizational report should address the following questions:
- Identify the presenting issue/s at B.R. Richardson Timber Products Corporation about organizational development and change, and analyze the impact on parts of the business, such as its people and processes, strategy, and structure. Use evidence to support your argument.
- Discuss some interventions that are available to B.R. Richardson Timber Products Corporation to resolve the issues identified in Question 1.
- Select one intervention and explain why this strategy is the most appropriate to implement. Here you may
refer to aspects such as people and processes, strategy and structure, and/or organization transformation. - Discuss the actions that you believe are necessary to implement the recommended strategy successfully.
Each question relates to the marking assessment criteria that are available in your e-unit profiles and the marking rubric (Moodle).
