Creating an Organizational Development Proposal

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INTERVENTION SELECTION AND APPLICATION

INTERVENTION SELECTION AND APPLICATION

Intervention Selection and Application

Student’s Name: Garry Bray Jr.

Institutional Affiliation: Ashford University

Course Name: BUS370

Instructor: Niccolle Johnson

Date: 26 April, 2021

Intervention Selection and Application

Introduction

The creation of a diverse workforce within an organizational setting is an action that involves professionalism. Diversity is a key approach of the organization meeting its goals in terms of efficiency and productivity. However, lack of diversity among the workforce lead to the creation of management complications and poor customer relations and other underlying factors. Understanding the relevance of diversity within the workforce is a practice that needs to be observed at every management levels within a company. The focus is reflecting of realistic diversity practice that would focus on the promotion of diversity in the required way. The lack of diversity calls for a diagnostic activity based intervention to address the problem.

The Diagnostic Activity Intervention

The Diagnostic Activity intervention is an initiative that entails the collection of all the pertinent information about the organizational state. The state involved in this case is lack of diversity within the workforce and the likely outcome that is to be observed within the organization. The practice entails searching the organizational records and the observation of respective task activities to evaluate the impact of the problem (Lyons, 2021). The practices are focused in determining the company health when it comes to diversity. The analysis of the information leads to the creation of an action plan that would address the problem appropriately, the practice takes place in consultation with the employees to create a better way in approaching the solutions presented.

Applicability of the Intervention

Diversity within the workplace is a problem that is hard to identify especially when it comes to daily operations. The factor makes the organization to appear normal yet it has underlying issues that needs to be resolved. The use of the intervention would enable the organization put further detail to the intensity of the problem (Nelson, 2016). Ideally, the information collected from the employees plays an important part in the promotion of diversity and intensifying the relevance of organization when it comes to action implementation and other relevant operational units. Lac of diversity is a factor that the employees and the entire management needs to be aware and the intervention would play an important part in fulfilling the action.

Actions Involved in the Intervention

Diagnostic activity is an organizational development approach that would ensure that the information about workforce diversity is collected. The practice would take place through the observation of the task activities, employee interviews and respective meetings with subordinates. The data would be then applied to understand the intensity of the situation leading to the drafting of an action plan (Nielsen, 2017). The plan would be based on the improvement of the work diversity situation by ensuring that order and discipline is applied within the company. It is an intervention based practice that is focused more ion discipline and promoting efficiency when it comes to productivity.

Conclusion

In summary, the lack of diversity calls for a diagnostic activity based intervention to address the problem. The intervention is an initiative that entails the collection of all the pertinent information about the organizational state. The state involved in this case is lack of diversity within the workforce and the likely outcome that is to be observed within the organization. Diversity within the workplace is a problem that is hard to identify especially when it comes to daily operations. The factor makes the organization to appear normal yet it has underlying issues that needs to be resolved. Diagnostic activity is an organizational development approach that would ensure that the information about workforce diversity is collected.

References

Lyons, S. (2021). Council Post: The Benefits Of Creating A Diverse Workforce. Retrieved 27 April 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/09/09/the-benefits-of-creating-a-diverse-workforce/?sh=10c11143140b

Nelson, R. E. (2016). Social Networks and Organizational Interventions: Insights from an Area-Wide Labor-Management Committee. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science22(1), 65–76.

Nielsen, K. (2017). Review Article: How can we make organizational interventions work? Employees and line managers as actively crafting interventions. Human Relations66(8), 1029–1050.