Diagnosis In Organizational Change Programs
Why is diagnosis so vital in organizational change programs? In order to implement a successful change program you must have reliable information outlining what you are attempting to fix. Failure to diagnose the problem can lead to even more problems.
If you do not take the appropriate time to understand the problem you could be reacting and treating something that doesn’t need to be treated. For example, if you went to the doctor with a symptom and he doesn’t properly diagnose what has caused that symptom, the medicine he gives you for something that is not actually the problem, could create more complications.
Failure to accurately diagnose will create further poor decisions down the road. It is likely you will only be trying to fix some symptom of the actual problem so the problem will continue to persist until you get to the root cause. In order to identify the causes of the symptoms, performance measures are necessary. (Kaydos, W.1991) An example could be that you have a clogged sink.
Trying to improve organizational performance by reorganizing, changing leadership or instituting new training and development programs creates change, but when done.
If you pour Drano down the sink pipes or try to plunge it out you will most likely middle of paper References Amer, Dr. Leadership Role in Management of Change.
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