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Organizational Interventions
Rachael Brown
Organizational Interventions
prevailing situations. The interventions are meant to provide the best solution to an organization
without harming the future of the organization. These interventions depend with the prevailing
situations and the available resources as well as the management decisions of the organization. It
is crucial to understand these interventions in order to have the best fit for an organization. Two
of the most use intervention is the collaborative intervention and the empowerment interventions.
These approaches are similar to each other but also differ on some issues.
develop the capacities and skills of the employee to handle the challenges they are facing. The
development should also be accompanied by availing the necessary resources that are required
by an employee to undertake the task assigned to them. Empowerment also requires that the
employees be given the opportunities to make their contributions to the organization. The
managers have to acknowledge the skills, expertise, and the talents ion their employees as well
as acknowledge that these employees have the competencies to make decision on their own
changes that will require a new set of skills and expertise. It is also important when the
organization is offering very close interactions with the customers where the employees are
required to make quick and informed decision on behalf of the organization[ CITATION Wei16 \l
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1033 ]. It is also crucial when the final decisions are to be made by the individual employee or
the group.
On its part, the collaborative intervention requires the organization to work together as
one team in the learning and change process. The organization will work together in teams
comprising members from different departments. It may also require collaboration with the other
internal and external stakeholders to learn about the problem at hand[CITATION ANG12 \l
1033 ]. The involved teams are able to move forward and gain an in-depth understanding of the
situation and the challenges facing them by learning a combing the knowledge from each
stakeholder. The solution to the problem is arrived at by working together in the analysis is the
interventions work best when the organization is relying on group planning and when the
Both empowerment and collaboration requires a form of partnerships to deal with the
challenges. Management has to work together with the employees in the empowerment process
and allow them to make decisions. In collaborative interventions, the employees and the
organization have to work together to seek solutions to the issues facing the organization.
However, the outcomes of these two interventions are different. In empowerment intervention,
the employees are left to make decisions on their own and have a long term affect Om their
individual competencies and skills. The organization is able to achieve the desirable long-term
impact by focusing on the development of the individual employees. On the other hand,
collaborative interventions are only for a short time and may not have a long-term impact on the
References
Luscher, L. S., & Lewis, M. W. (2008). Organizational change and managerial sensemaking:
Weiss, J. W. (2016). Organizational Change (2 ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.