Bus240

MURDOCH UNIVERSITY

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE

BUS240 ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT & HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

RESEARCH TOPIC

Analyses the issue of whether change leaders should be internal or external to the organization (i.e. drawn from the current ranks of leaders and even the current CEO versus drawn from other organizations). Consider the circumstance under which you would recommend internal versus external leadership.

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Student No:

Lecturer: Mr Frankie Yee

Declaration:

Except where I have indicated, the work I am submitting in this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted for assessment in another course.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover page 1

Table of Contents 2

1. Executive Summary 3

2. Introduction 4

2.1 The Research Background 4

2.2 Limitation of the Report 4

2.3 The Sources and Methods of Data Collection 4

2.4 The Report Organization 4

3. What’s OD practitioner? 4

3.1. Skills of OD practitioner

4. 3 types of OD practitioner 5

5. Internal and external practitioner 6

Advantages and disadvantages of internal and external practitioner 6

6. Conclusion 8

7. Bibliography 9

1. Executive Summary

This report will discuss on whether change leaders should be internal or external to the organization. This defines what are internal change agents and external change agents. They are the one who impacts to organization and push the organization’s change process. The organization will be better or worse totally based on the decision of the leader, who is in charge of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Identification of problems and how to resolve them is very important, because it bring back the benefit of the organization and its members. Changes are important and urgent to do, but how to change is another problem that every organization must face to. “Managing change requires organizational and management skills to compete in a mature...