Unit 1 IP

  PowerPoint 6 slides 150 words with speaker notes 

From the course scenario you read the following: The  CEO has hired you as an external organizational development consultant  to help him identify problem areas and to understand where changes  should be made within the company. Over the next few weeks, you will  also be working with the CEO and managers in all four divisions of the  company to help establish these changes. 

Your various responsibilities  will also include talking with employees at each level of the company to  get a better understanding about underlying problems.

Currently, you are done meeting with the four vice presidents, and  Jared the CEO has called you into his office for a quick meeting to  discuss next steps.

Jared states, "I want to give them some background on organizational  behavior so we have certain common knowledge about organizational  development, motivation, needs theories, and so forth."

Later that day, as the OD consultant, you sit down at the computer  and pull up your writing about the organizational behavior theories. The  time you took to write down information about the major theories will  be useful for the 

PowerPoint presentation you're preparing now. By  comparing and contrasting the theories and then talking about it with  the vice presidents, you hope to shed some light on gaps in their  understanding about how individual behavior affects the organization.

So, in essence, the assignment is asking you to create your  PowerPoint slides based on the fundamentals of Organizational Behavior. 

 First, describe differing theories on organizational development,  motivation and needs theories, and then compare and contrast the  theories by providing strengths/weaknesses and pros/cons for the  theories.