Organizational Development and Change at FunTime Snacks Summarize the major problem(s) at FunTime. Choose the most appropriate diagnostic model for this particular case (organization, group, individual job as illustrated in the text) and apply it to this situation. FunTime is going through a very disruptive time in their business model as larger, more well-financed competitors are challenging them at a local and regional level, undercutting the FunTime differentiated approach of using local,

This led to an entirely new, and often less manageable, organizational structure becoming more prevalent in Accenture. As a result of the individualized intervention not completely working, Accenture focused on re-defining teams based on the customer groups they served. This was different than industry-based vertical practice segments including banking, manufacturing, or services and instead sought to re-define knowledge workflows based on customer centricity. The use of business process management

Applying a Global Strategy to the Judicial Reform in Brazil Brazil has emerged as a confident country across the world. Clearly, Brazil is among the first countries that emerged to stimulate the global economy and investment. Early, this year, the government of Brazil initiated new restrictions to preserve enduring foreign direct investment. The politics of Brazil have played a key role in the judiciary. This was recently demonstrated by the current

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Organizational Development and Change Organizational development is something that contributes to a stronger organization. People can receive more skills that will allow them to make better decisions and play a bigger role in the organization's strategy. This can also have a positive effect on organizational change programs as well, because more talented people are more likely to buy into change as they are less threatened by the nature of change and

According to Weiss and Kolberg, "In the 1960s, a breakthrough in sharing the assessment results came from the Peace Corps when the psychologists who were working with the volunteers used surveys that were geared to expand the volunteer's self-knowledge, under the assumption that expanding self-knowledge would help a volunteer better deal with culture change. This was the first time that this type of assessment was done for the primary benefit