Running head: TOPIC SELECTION 1 Topic selection Weltee Wolo Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on October 17, 2016, for George Ojie-Ahamiojie’s B420/GEB4505 Organizational Development course TOPIC SELECTION 2 Walmart is one of the largest companies in America; it has solidified its position as the biggest retailer in America and the world over with several branches all around the globe. Walmart prides itself in affordable products for everyday Americans. This is a promise it seems to have kept so as to solidify its place at the top. Recently, the company has been going through a number of challenges inclusive of lowered stock prices and very low sales, most of its customers are not in a position to afford to shop because of the state of the current economy and its inability to fully penetrate the online market. Economists have termed it as a period of a “perfect storm” and as such, there is a need for change. The fundamental problems affecting the performance of Walmart is its management. Walmart management has failed to fulfill its required expectations. It has failed to provide a sufficient online presence considering the size of the store. The administration has also failed to provide its customers with adequate services. Service provision failures are evident in the untrained employees who are not able to cater to all the customer needs. Service provision has also failed because the gap between the managers and the customers has widened and as such the customers no longer feel valued. Some of the recommendation that could prove useful to the Walmart owners and management team include taking the time to re-evaluate its service provision. Walmart should invest in training its employees to ensure they can cater to all the customer needs. Another recommendation is to benchmark from other companies who have succeeded in establishing a strong online presence. Taking time to learn what they can do to improve their presence from others could prove very useful. TOPIC SELECTION 3 Reference Wal-Mart faces big hurdles - Yahoo Finance. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-faces-big-hurdles-125013357--finance.html Running head: PROJECT OUTLINE 1 Project Outline Weltee Wolo Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on November 14, 2016, for George Ojie-Ahamioj ...

1. Running head: TOPIC SELECTION
1
Topic selection
Weltee Wolo
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on October 17, 2016, for
George Ojie-Ahamiojie’s
B420/GEB4505 Organizational Development course

2. TOPIC SELECTION
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Walmart is one of the largest companies in America; it has
solidified its position as the
biggest retailer in America and the world over with several
branches all around the globe.
Walmart prides itself in affordable products for everyday
Americans. This is a promise it seems
to have kept so as to solidify its place at the top.
Recently, the company has been going through a number of
challenges inclusive of lowered
stock prices and very low sales, most of its customers are not in
a position to afford to shop
because of the state of the current economy and its inability to
fully penetrate the online market.
Economists have termed it as a period of a “perfect storm” and
as such, there is a need for
change. The fundamental problems affecting the performance of
Walmart is its management.
Walmart management has failed to fulfill its required
expectations. It has failed to provide a

3. sufficient online presence considering the size of the store. The
administration has also failed to
provide its customers with adequate services. Service provision
failures are evident in the
untrained employees who are not able to cater to all the
customer needs. Service provision has
also failed because the gap between the managers and the
customers has widened and as such the
customers no longer feel valued.
Some of the recommendation that could prove useful to the
Walmart owners and management
team include taking the time to re-evaluate its service provision.
Walmart should invest in
training its employees to ensure they can cater to all the
customer needs. Another
recommendation is to benchmark from other companies who
have succeeded in establishing a
strong online presence. Taking time to learn what they can do to
improve their presence from
others could prove very useful.

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Reference
Wal-Mart faces big hurdles - Yahoo Finance. (n.d.). Retrieved
from
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-faces-big-hurdles-
125013357--finance.html
Running head: PROJECT OUTLINE
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Project Outline
Weltee Wolo
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on November 14, 2016,
for George Ojie-Ahamiojie’s
B420/GEB4505 Organizational Development course

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Change in management in an organization
Purpose for organizational development change
• Change in business development usually enhanced by the
quality of the business organization,
aim and formulates a business development strategy.
• When formulating business development goals and
comprises new market and product
development.
• Business organization, structure, processes and international

6. development regarding acquisition
and disposals is also partly subjective and scientific based on
the wishes and feeling of business
owners or CEO.
Problems resulting from the organizational changes
• Problems that come with this supposed variations in the
business environment are such as
employees and managers resistance which typically addressed
proactively because strength and
persistence can threaten a project.
• Resistance management is usually a process and tool used by
executives and managers with
change team support to manage resistance by the employees
during the process.
Solution
s regarding the problems faced
• In handling the problems created by staff and managers, one
need to recognize that change is

7. not a one-way street and that employee involvement is highly
needed whenever taking that
important decision.
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• Employees feedback implementation is the key factor in the
change management process for
instance change managers can take into considerations of
analysing the comments and implement
corrective measures to ensure full adoption the changes
proposed and implementation.
Best practices to help in the changes
• Whenever it comes to appropriate methods of dealing with
the changes within the organization,

8. you will find that the main issue being defensiveness and
people's resistance to new faces within
the company and also the shifting of their official positions to
other positions within the
organization.
• Whenever this challenge is overcome, you may start the
comparison between what’s happening
and what the team set out to do and even how people feel about
the whole procedure.
• Protocols are to be observed diligently with proper
introductions be willing to ask for help,
introductions and permissions to.
Plan of organizational changes
• These being the final stage where you can sit back from the
whole program and start an
evaluation of failures and success and even mark changes for

9. the next program or project. This
part of ongoing continuous improvements in change
management and ultimately lead to the
modification competency.
• Along with change management process, systems are created
to manage the whole system to
ensure success in projects avoid losing key employees to
minimize adverse impacts changes in the
company’s customers and productivity.
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International contingency in organizational changes
• Early adoption, wins and long term successes must be
recognized and celebrated because it is

10. the key element in change that shows that employees are
appreciated. Adoption, however, needs
to be done to ensure there are no slip backs into their old ways.
CONCLUSION
• It is likely that you’ll have to write a report and
recommendations afterward. In any case, you
should plan lots of questions which help you know how they
feel about a condition or situation
and what should be done to improve these areas for better
performance. Let there be no surprises
and always do your best to be constructive.
• Look at the customers’ relationship materials as well
because they will give you brief highlights
on what is best to be focused on. Try on looking at the
employee motivation survey materials too.

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