Chris Scott MAN5258 week-1 IV
For your individual written work this week, consider what you have learned about how OD and planned change are different from other forms of organization change and imagine you are presenting a paper on OD to a group of MBA students. * Compare OD and planned change to other forms of organization change, illustrating the differences. * Discuss the emphasis of each type of change and its relevance in today’s business environment.
Your assignment should be a minimum of 3-4 page(s) in length.

Continual efforts are made by managers and leaders to imply a significant, not to mention successful change. Believe it or not some are exceptional at doing this, more than we tend to think, but there are certainly those who tremendously fail. Most of the time this is the difference between doing well and standing back and saying, "what happened"? People can attend school for years learning about leadership, management and business, there are not too many that teaches about the adaption to change or the analyzation of organizations, how to successfully identify and address the important aspects while applying an change to seamlessly undertake such priorities. The primary point of business is to be profitable and the most successful firms work to improve their efficiency, performance is the way to go. To obtain a full understanding of organizational development and change the agent implementing the change needs to have, at the minimum a general knowledge of the effort to adapt to the change. This would include the organization structure, basic systems along with their roles and terms. The tools are out there and are very useful to aide in the implementation of whichever decided changes someone needs to undertake, communicate and successfully guide. Systems thinking and systems theory are tools that have serious advancements within the