Final Project – Topic Selection

The final project revolves around you diagnosing a process/structure/environment in an organization that you’re familiar with and that needs improvement and designing an organizational development (OD) intervention to achieve positive change.  Organizations such as your place of employment, community groups, volunteer groups, school committees, and even city/state/Federal governments are areas to consider.  

• Using APA formatting requirements (12 point Times New Roman font, double-spacing, 1″ margins, title and reference pages), write a 250-350 word paper introducing your chosen organization and the associated process/structure/environment that needs improvement.
• Additionally, your paper should discuss the following:  
  • why you have chosen your organization;
  • a diagnosis of why the change is needed;
  • proposed organizational behavior concepts from the text that might apply as you work towards an intervention.

Organizational behavior
. Take the abbreviated (and less accurate) Myers Briggs test. Reveal your MBTI type and describe:

a. An organizational situation (job function, event, team assignment, etc.) where your personality type could be at a disadvantage.
b. A situation where your personality type might be an advantage.
c. How you learn best.

2. Choose one of the following two questions to answer:
a. Imagine that you have a person with negative affect in your organization. What might be a positive contribution that this person could make in a group where everyone else has positive affect and similar backgrounds?
b. What contributions can high self-monitors make in organizations? Low self-monitors?

3. When you answer the personality part of this question, make sure that you have viewed the module material, including ideas on how to think about where your personality type is at an advantage or disadvantage (i.e., the Nurse MBTI example) and the definition of negative affect! And, with respect to how you learn best, consider the following information from this week’s reading: MBTI introvert/extravert differences (page 94) and “You 1.2? from chapter 1, module 1