Learning outcomes: By completing this assignment, you will
- Analyze the field of organization development (NOT your organization)
- Identify the field of OD’s internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats
- Create a SWOT matrix
- Interpret SWOT results
Two tips!
- Allow plenty of time to complete this assignment, as you use a new tool–the SWOT matrix–to analyze the field of OD (NOT your organization)
- In the SWOT matrix tool,
- Strengths and weaknesses are internal to the field of OD (and students usually have an easy time using the textbooks to identify).
- Opportunities and threats are external to the field of OD (but students frequently continue to identify internal strengths and weaknesses). Examples of external opportunities and threats include how the economy, politics, societal norms, legislation/laws/regulations, pandemics, etc. might create or present opportunities or threats for the field of OD.
Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_6AVRGLXGA