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Challenges in
Organization
Development
Overview
• Theories of change in individuals and organizations
• Model of planned change
• HRD and change: individual and organizational
• Challenges:
• Diversity
• Glass ceiling
Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam
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What is Organizational Development?
A process used to enhance both the effectiveness of an
organization and the well-being of its members through planned
interventions
Two most prominent theories:
• Change Process Theory
• Implementation Theory
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Change Process Theory – Lewin’s Model
Seeks to explain the dynamics through which individual and
organizational improvement and changes take place
Three Stages:
• Unfreezing (readiness)
• Moving / Changing (adoption)
• Refreezing (institutionalization)
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Schein’s (expanded) Three-Stage Model
Unfreezing: Creating motivation and readiness to
change
• Disconfirmation or lack of confirmation
• Creation of guilt or anxiety
• Provision of psychological safety
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Schein’s Three-Stage Model
Changing: helping an individual to see, judge, feel, and
react differently
• Based on a new point of view
• Identifying with a new role model, mentor
• Scanning the environment for new relevant information
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Schein’s Three-Stage Model
Refreezing: helping an individual to integrate the new
point of view
• Personality
• Self-concept
• Relationships
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The Big Issue with these models
Focus is primarily on resistance
• If you’re not familiar, may I recommend a great read:
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Promoting Readiness for Change
Instead of focusing on resistance to change, shift in emphasis
toward ensuring both individuals and organizations are ready for
change.
I’ll be explaining with the help of John Candy and the rest of the
cast of the classic 1993 movie “Cool Runnings”
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Discrepancy: The gap between current and ideal state
Why change?
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Efficacy: Confidence in the ability to make the change
“Can we do this?”
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Appropriateness: Perception that this is the right change
“Why this change?”
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Principal Support: Leaders support the change
• “Is management walking the talk?”
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Valence: Intrinsic and extrinsic benefits
What’s in it for me?
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8 Factors for successful change
1. Ensure the need
2. Provide a plan
3. Build internal support for change and overcome
resistance
4. Ensure top management support and
commitment
5. Build external support (where needed)
6. Provide resources
7. Institutionalize change, (“refreezing”)
8. Pursue comprehensive change
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Model of Planned Change
Implementation Theory
Focuses on specific intervention strategies that are designed
to induce organizational change
Four types of interventions:
• Human process-based
• Techno-structural
• Socio-technical systems (STS) designs
• Large system changes (organizational transformation)
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Implementation Theory
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Level Emphasis HRD Application
Human
Process
Based
Employee needs
Job satisfaction
Individual differences
Norms and values
Team effectiveness
Career development
Stress management
Coaching
Cross-cultural training
Orientation and socialization
Team training
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Level Emphasis HRD Application
Techno- structural Job competencies
Improving work content
Skills and technical training
Job design and enrichment
Socio-technical Self-managed teams
Total quality management
Team training
Quality training
Organization
Transformation
Beliefs and principals
Reorganization
(Downsizing)
Continuous learning
Missions and Goals
Employee assistance
programs
Management development
High performance work
systems
Implementation Theory
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Model of Planned Change
Individual Cognitive Change
Alpha
• Perceived change in the levels of variables (skills) without
altering their configuration (job)
Beta
• Change in the value of variables
Gamma (A)
• Change in the configuration of existing paradigm
Gamma (B)
• Replacement of one paradigm with another that contains new
variables
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Gamma (B): Replacement of one paradigm with another
that contains new variables
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Limitations to Organizational Development
• Lack of true experimental designs
• Lack of resources available to practitioners
• Limitations of field research designs
• Potential bias by OD evaluators (who are often the designers of
the intervention)
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Quick Break
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Part 2 - Diversity
What do you see?
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People aged 14-50 from Bolivia, China, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands,
Peru, Tunisia, and Uganda offered the following interpretations:
• Two women are walking and a man threatens one of the
women with a piece of wood.
• Two men are attacking a woman.
• A woman steps aside to let a blind man pass.
• A beggar and a woman
• Gardening
• A farm family working on their land
• Two people helping each other do something
• Poor people. The man is digging for something and the
woman is waiting to take it.
• A man cleaning the floor
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What do you see?
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What do you see?
• A teacher reprimanding a student
• A man teaching other men
• A boss giving instructions to employees
• A government official warning people
• Someone giving a blessing
• A preacher in church
• A film director instructing his crew where to stand
• A salesman trying to sell his wares
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What do you see?
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What do you see?
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What are the main influences?
• Family relationships
• Hierarchical relationships
• Unique attributes of people in the picture
• Gender differences
• Cooperation
• Antagonism
• Details that highlight professional or religious roles
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Diversity in the Workplace: Cultural Training
Globalization has resulted in more individuals being
given expatriate assignment
Many organizations are providing cross-cultural
training to prepare these individuals for their
assignments. The four primary elements are:
• Raising the awareness of cultural differences
• Focusing on ways attitudes are shaped
• Providing factual information about each culture
• Building skills in the areas of language, nonverbal
communication, cultural stress management, and
adjustment adaptation skills
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Cultural Training
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Diversity and Socialization
Issues confronting minorities in the workplace:
• Feeling of isolation due to cultural differences
• Additional stress if they feel they must become “bicultural” in
order to be accepted
• Held to higher standards than other coworkers as they enter
nontraditional occupations
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Questions for Cultural Awareness Training
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Question Potential area of discussion Examples
What are some key dissimilarities
between people from different
cultures?
1. Physical traits
2. System of values
3. Language or dialect
4. Religion
5. Institutions
Gender
Age
Race
Work ethic, …
How do these differences come
about?
1. Custom
2. Lifestyle
3. Shared norms
4. Shared experiences
5. Communication patterns
Clothing
Food
Nonverbal symbols
What are the implications when
different cultures interact?
1. Conflict
2. Stereotyping or
ethnocentrism
3. Sexism or racism
Misunderstanding
Refusing to accept
Discrimination
Diversity Practices
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Effective Diversity Practices Theme Importance rank
Inclusive culture and values
Retaining diverse talent
Advancing diverse talent
Global/Cultural diversity
Recruiting diverse talent
Community/Supplier/Customer diversity
Diversity education and training
Career development for diverse talent
Employee involvement
Leadership commitment and involvement
Corporate communications reflective of diversity
Performance accountability and measurement
1 (71%)
2(69%)
3(63%)
4(59%)
5(57%)
6(53%)
8(51%)
9(49%)
10(42%)
11(40%)
12(39%)
13(30%)
Forms of Discrimination: (1)Access Discrimination
When an organization places limits on job availability
• Restricting advertisement and recruitment
• Rejecting applicants
• Offering a lower starting salary
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(2) Treatment Discrimination
Occurs after a person is hired
• Limiting opportunities, promotions
• Difficulty moving into executive / policymaking positions
• Racial harassment on the job
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Equal Employment Opportunity
The right to obtain jobs and earn rewards in them regardless of
non-job-related factors
Unlawful for employers to make employment decisions
based on:
• Race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, mental or physical
handicap, Vietnam-era or disabled veteran status, or pregnancy,
unless these factors can be shown to be job related
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The Glass Ceiling
An invisible but impenetrable boundary preventing women and
minorities from advancing to senior management levels
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The Glass Ceiling Commission (1996)
• Neither women nor minorities tended to advance as far as
their white male counterparts, although women advanced
further than minorities
• While most organizations made a concerted effort to identify
and develop key (white male) employees, few organizations
had taken any ownership for equal employment
opportunity and access
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The Glass Ceiling Commission (1996)
• The few women and minorities who held executive jobs were in
staff positions that were considered outside the corporate
mainstream for promotions to senior-level positions
• While most of these organizations held federal government
contracts, most had inadequate equal employment and
affirmative action record keeping
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EU Report on Gender Equality (2017)
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EU Report on Gender Equality (2017)
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Summing Up
Human resource development can address the challenges and
generate potential benefits of workforce diversity through a
combination of:
• Training and development
• Career development
• Organizational development
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Intro to HRM Lecture 10 - Challenges in Organizational Development

  • 2. Overview • Theories of change in individuals and organizations • Model of planned change • HRD and change: individual and organizational • Challenges: • Diversity • Glass ceiling Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 2
  • 3. What is Organizational Development? A process used to enhance both the effectiveness of an organization and the well-being of its members through planned interventions Two most prominent theories: • Change Process Theory • Implementation Theory Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 3
  • 4. Change Process Theory – Lewin’s Model Seeks to explain the dynamics through which individual and organizational improvement and changes take place Three Stages: • Unfreezing (readiness) • Moving / Changing (adoption) • Refreezing (institutionalization) Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 4
  • 5. Schein’s (expanded) Three-Stage Model Unfreezing: Creating motivation and readiness to change • Disconfirmation or lack of confirmation • Creation of guilt or anxiety • Provision of psychological safety Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 5
  • 6. Schein’s Three-Stage Model Changing: helping an individual to see, judge, feel, and react differently • Based on a new point of view • Identifying with a new role model, mentor • Scanning the environment for new relevant information Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 6
  • 7. Schein’s Three-Stage Model Refreezing: helping an individual to integrate the new point of view • Personality • Self-concept • Relationships Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 7
  • 8. The Big Issue with these models Focus is primarily on resistance • If you’re not familiar, may I recommend a great read: Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 8
  • 9. Promoting Readiness for Change Instead of focusing on resistance to change, shift in emphasis toward ensuring both individuals and organizations are ready for change. I’ll be explaining with the help of John Candy and the rest of the cast of the classic 1993 movie “Cool Runnings” Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 9
  • 10. Discrepancy: The gap between current and ideal state Why change? Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 10
  • 11. Efficacy: Confidence in the ability to make the change “Can we do this?” Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 11
  • 12. Appropriateness: Perception that this is the right change “Why this change?” Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 12
  • 13. Principal Support: Leaders support the change • “Is management walking the talk?” Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 13
  • 14. Valence: Intrinsic and extrinsic benefits What’s in it for me? Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 14
  • 15. 8 Factors for successful change 1. Ensure the need 2. Provide a plan 3. Build internal support for change and overcome resistance 4. Ensure top management support and commitment 5. Build external support (where needed) 6. Provide resources 7. Institutionalize change, (“refreezing”) 8. Pursue comprehensive change Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 15
  • 16. Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 16 Model of Planned Change
  • 17. Implementation Theory Focuses on specific intervention strategies that are designed to induce organizational change Four types of interventions: • Human process-based • Techno-structural • Socio-technical systems (STS) designs • Large system changes (organizational transformation) Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 17
  • 18. Implementation Theory Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 18 Level Emphasis HRD Application Human Process Based Employee needs Job satisfaction Individual differences Norms and values Team effectiveness Career development Stress management Coaching Cross-cultural training Orientation and socialization Team training
  • 19. Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 19 Level Emphasis HRD Application Techno- structural Job competencies Improving work content Skills and technical training Job design and enrichment Socio-technical Self-managed teams Total quality management Team training Quality training Organization Transformation Beliefs and principals Reorganization (Downsizing) Continuous learning Missions and Goals Employee assistance programs Management development High performance work systems Implementation Theory
  • 20. Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 20 Model of Planned Change
  • 21. Individual Cognitive Change Alpha • Perceived change in the levels of variables (skills) without altering their configuration (job) Beta • Change in the value of variables Gamma (A) • Change in the configuration of existing paradigm Gamma (B) • Replacement of one paradigm with another that contains new variables Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 21
  • 22. Gamma (B): Replacement of one paradigm with another that contains new variables Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 22
  • 23. 23
  • 24. Limitations to Organizational Development • Lack of true experimental designs • Lack of resources available to practitioners • Limitations of field research designs • Potential bias by OD evaluators (who are often the designers of the intervention) Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 24
  • 25. Quick Break Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 25
  • 26. Part 2 - Diversity What do you see? Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 26
  • 27. People aged 14-50 from Bolivia, China, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, Peru, Tunisia, and Uganda offered the following interpretations: • Two women are walking and a man threatens one of the women with a piece of wood. • Two men are attacking a woman. • A woman steps aside to let a blind man pass. • A beggar and a woman • Gardening • A farm family working on their land • Two people helping each other do something • Poor people. The man is digging for something and the woman is waiting to take it. • A man cleaning the floor Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 27
  • 28. What do you see? Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 28
  • 29. What do you see? • A teacher reprimanding a student • A man teaching other men • A boss giving instructions to employees • A government official warning people • Someone giving a blessing • A preacher in church • A film director instructing his crew where to stand • A salesman trying to sell his wares Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 29
  • 30. What do you see? Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 30
  • 31. What do you see? Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 31
  • 32. What are the main influences? • Family relationships • Hierarchical relationships • Unique attributes of people in the picture • Gender differences • Cooperation • Antagonism • Details that highlight professional or religious roles Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 32
  • 33. Diversity in the Workplace: Cultural Training Globalization has resulted in more individuals being given expatriate assignment Many organizations are providing cross-cultural training to prepare these individuals for their assignments. The four primary elements are: • Raising the awareness of cultural differences • Focusing on ways attitudes are shaped • Providing factual information about each culture • Building skills in the areas of language, nonverbal communication, cultural stress management, and adjustment adaptation skills Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 33
  • 34. Cultural Training Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 34
  • 35. Diversity and Socialization Issues confronting minorities in the workplace: • Feeling of isolation due to cultural differences • Additional stress if they feel they must become “bicultural” in order to be accepted • Held to higher standards than other coworkers as they enter nontraditional occupations Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 35
  • 36. Questions for Cultural Awareness Training Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 36 Question Potential area of discussion Examples What are some key dissimilarities between people from different cultures? 1. Physical traits 2. System of values 3. Language or dialect 4. Religion 5. Institutions Gender Age Race Work ethic, … How do these differences come about? 1. Custom 2. Lifestyle 3. Shared norms 4. Shared experiences 5. Communication patterns Clothing Food Nonverbal symbols What are the implications when different cultures interact? 1. Conflict 2. Stereotyping or ethnocentrism 3. Sexism or racism Misunderstanding Refusing to accept Discrimination
  • 37. Diversity Practices Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 37 Effective Diversity Practices Theme Importance rank Inclusive culture and values Retaining diverse talent Advancing diverse talent Global/Cultural diversity Recruiting diverse talent Community/Supplier/Customer diversity Diversity education and training Career development for diverse talent Employee involvement Leadership commitment and involvement Corporate communications reflective of diversity Performance accountability and measurement 1 (71%) 2(69%) 3(63%) 4(59%) 5(57%) 6(53%) 8(51%) 9(49%) 10(42%) 11(40%) 12(39%) 13(30%)
  • 38. Forms of Discrimination: (1)Access Discrimination When an organization places limits on job availability • Restricting advertisement and recruitment • Rejecting applicants • Offering a lower starting salary Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 38
  • 39. (2) Treatment Discrimination Occurs after a person is hired • Limiting opportunities, promotions • Difficulty moving into executive / policymaking positions • Racial harassment on the job Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 39
  • 40. Equal Employment Opportunity The right to obtain jobs and earn rewards in them regardless of non-job-related factors Unlawful for employers to make employment decisions based on: • Race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, mental or physical handicap, Vietnam-era or disabled veteran status, or pregnancy, unless these factors can be shown to be job related Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 40
  • 41. The Glass Ceiling An invisible but impenetrable boundary preventing women and minorities from advancing to senior management levels Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 41
  • 42. The Glass Ceiling Commission (1996) • Neither women nor minorities tended to advance as far as their white male counterparts, although women advanced further than minorities • While most organizations made a concerted effort to identify and develop key (white male) employees, few organizations had taken any ownership for equal employment opportunity and access Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 42
  • 43. The Glass Ceiling Commission (1996) • The few women and minorities who held executive jobs were in staff positions that were considered outside the corporate mainstream for promotions to senior-level positions • While most of these organizations held federal government contracts, most had inadequate equal employment and affirmative action record keeping Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 43
  • 44. EU Report on Gender Equality (2017) Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 44
  • 45. EU Report on Gender Equality (2017) Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 45
  • 46. Summing Up Human resource development can address the challenges and generate potential benefits of workforce diversity through a combination of: • Training and development • Career development • Organizational development Allen Grabo – VU University Amsterdam 46

Editor's Notes

  1. Derice Bannock - Leon Sanka Coffie – Doug E Doug Junior Bevil – Rawle D. Lewis Yul Brenner – Malik Yoba Irv – John Candy In the beginning we see Derice Bannock (Leon) running across the island of Jamaica. Derice is training for the 1988 Olympic Games, and hopes to be a gold-medal winner just like his father. Before the trial run, Derice visits his friend Sanka Coffee (Doug E. Doug), who is competing in a pushcart race. Sanka wins the race but ends up crashing just after he crosses the finish line, to everyone's amusement. Later that day, Sanka joins Derice's family at the track for the Olympic trials. Derice is preparing to race, meeting a few other competitors, including a short athlete named Junior Bevil (Rawle D. Lewis). The race starts off great, but halfway across the track, Junior stumbles and trips several runners, including Derice. Derice stumbles back to his feet as the finish-line tape is broken, watching his dreams go up in smoke. Derice confronts Coolidge (Winston Stona), who is charge of the Jamaican competition, and begs for a chance to run again, but Coolidge refuses. Derice then notices a photo of his father on his wall, next to an unfamiliar man. Coolidge identifies the man as Irving Blitzer, an American now living on the island and who had tried to convince Derice's father, Ben, to compete in bobsledding. Derice, seeing another chance to compete, as a bobsledder, takes the picture and goes to meet with Irv. Sanka hears about Derice's idea. At first he is excited but balks upon learning that bobsledding is a WINTER sport. Eventually Sanka is persuaded to help his best friend. The two men find Blitzer (John Candy) working as a bookie in a run-down pool hall. Having been disqualified from bobsledding due to cheating, and therefore disgraced, Blitzer is far from eager to help them, and does not want anything to do with the sport of bobsledding. However, the two athletes don't give up. Upon learning that Derice is the son of his old friend and colleague, Blitzer relents. Next day, Blitzer tries to recruit additional team members. The first newcomer is a bald man Sanka recognizes from the Olympic running trials, who introduces himself as Yul Brenner (Malik Yoba), and is more than willing to compete in bobsledding so long as it leads him to the Olympics. Only one other man shows up to join the team: Junior, the clumsy runner from the track. having been one of the other runners tripped up by Junior's fall, Yul is immediately hostile to Junior, but relents since without Junior, they don't have a full team. Blitzer begins training the four immediately. He builds a makeshift bobsled and has them push it down a steep slope, telling the team that if they can't get a push-start completed in under 6 seconds, they won't have a chance at competing. Yul is the second mlddle man, Junior is first middle man. Blitzer chooses Sanka as brakes, but Sanka resists. He reminds him that the driver in bobsledding has many more responsiblities than a push car racer, and can't go out to have fun with his teammates. Sanka relents and decides Derice can be driver. After the first day of training, Junior returns home with the intention of telling his father about the team. But Mr. Bevil (Charles Hyatt) comes home and tells Junior that he has gotten his son a job with a brokerage house in Miami, which he is expected to take by the end of the month. Intimidated, Junior clams up and cannot say anything more. Initially, the training does not go well. The group stumbles and falls several times, not even able to get into the sled. But after several tries, they climb in together and rocket down the mountain, eventually crashing into a police car. Blitzer runs after them cheering: they got started in 5.9 seconds! He tells them to bring the sled back up the mountain, making them groan. Now that the team is in good shape, Blitzer goes to Coolidge to ask for funding to get to the Olympics. But Coolidge refuses, believing that the team will be humiliated. Unshaken, Derice decides they will try to get the money elsewhere. After several fund-raising endeavors, they are far short of their goal. Junior comes back to the team after a day away, announcing that he has sold his car to get the required funds. Derice does not want to take the money from Junior at first, thinking it to be exploiting Junior. But Junior explains that he still feels guilty for costing Derice and the others their first Olympic chance, and gladly gives up the money. The team heads to Calgary for the Olympic Games. While Blitzer adjusts to the weather easily, the Jamaicans are unprepared for the severe cold and buy heavy-duty coats as soon as the plane lands. Blitzer registers the team for competition, and meets a few colleagues from his days in bobsledding. He has lunch with one friend, Roger (Paul Coeur) and asks him for a sled so his team can compete. Roger is reluctant but agrees to sell off an old backup sled from the US team. The team begins learning how to move and walk on ice, using a hockey rink for practice. It does not go well at first, but they eventually make progress. That night, Derice watches the Swiss bobsled team practicing and becomes enamored with their efficient performance. Blitzer shows off the sled he purchased to the team. It's is rusted and old, but still works fine. On their first day at the track, the Jamaican team is met with ridicule and scorn by other competitors. Blitzer tells them that a push-start will not be necessary for the initial run; they will just be nudged down the slide instead. While the run starts off fine, the sled ends up crashing before the finish line. Their next run does not go well either: They end up chasing the sled down the track. A photographer snaps a picture of the group running after the sled, and it makes the papers, which doesn't sit in well with Mr. Bevil and Coolidge. Derice is repairing the sled when he meets one of Irv's old colleagues, who tells Derice that during the1972 competition, Irv hid weights at the bottom of his sled to accelerate its speed. As a result, he was kicked out and had his gold medals revoked. The following night at the hotel, Sanka tries to pose as a maid, but Yul brushes him aside, thinking he's insane. Junior receives a telegram from his father. The news story about the Jamaican team alerted Mr. Bevil to Junior's activities, and he is now ordering his son home. While they are out in a bar that night, Yul encourages Junior to stand up for himself. Junior immediately responds by confronting the German team members who had insulted them earlier, resulting in a huge bar-fight between Yul, Sanka, Junior, and the Germans. At the Relax Inn Motel, Derice berates his teammates for what happened and tells them the Swiss team would never resort to stunts like that because they're awlays focused on their performance. Yul, Sanka, and Junior don't take Derice seriously and continue snickering. Sanka makes a crude joke about the Swiss team and what happens if they try to push a pretty girl off the ice. A few minutes later, Irv comes in and berates the three for not taking things seriously. He reminds them that everyone hates them and they need to get their act together. After thinking things over, the Jamaicans resume serious training. With Irv's help, they are quickly whipped back into shape. Finally, the night of the Jamaican team's qualifying run has arrived. Irv presents the team with special competition suits as a reward for their improved behavior. Irv then meets with the three judges, who remind him that the team must make it off the slope and across the finish line in under 1 minute in order to be eligible. The team sets out, and despite a few bumps, they cross the finish line safely. After several tense moments, their time is revealed: 59.46! Irv and the team are overjoyed. The guys celebrate by painting their sled with Jamaica's colors, and Derice decides to christen the sled "Cool Runnings." At that moment, Irv gets a letter from the judges informing him that the Jamaican team has been disqualified. Irv angirlly storms into the offices of the men in charge, demanding to know why. Apparently, there is a rule stating that a team must compete in an international race to qualify. Previously, an Olympic trial would be considered an international race, but this time the committee decided to change the rules. However, Irv isn't fooled and immediately discerns the truth: His former coach (from the '72 Games and currently a primary judge of the '88 Games) Kurt Hemphill, is still punishing him for embarrassing the USA by cheating. Irv confronts Hemphill and confesses that 16 years previously, he'd made the mistake of his life: He resorted to cheating because he wanted to win and didn't care what the consequences were. Instead, he ended up disgracing the Americans by embarrassing everyone -- his coach, teammates, friends, and family -- and his gold medals were revoked as a result. Irv also reminds Kurt that it was HIS mistake, and if Kurt wants revenge, he should punish him, not the Jamacian bobsledding team, as they deserve to represent their country by competing in the Winter Games as contenders and don't deserve to suffer because of his past mistakes. That night at their hotel, the team gets a phone call informing them that the committee has reversed its decision - the Jamaicans are back in! Everyone on the island of Jamaica watches the bobsled team wave their flag as they enter the Olympic stadium. After the opening ceremony, Irv tries to find some inspirational words for the team. But this conversation is cut short by the arrival of Mr. Bevil, who has come to collect his son. Bevil tells Junior that he is only looking out for his sons' best interest, and demands the young man gather his things. But Junior draws on Yul's advice and stands up to his father, telling him he's staying with his team, and that his father cares about his own interest in making himself look good more than his son's. Junior tells him he's an Olymic athlete now, not his puppet, and sends his father on his way. On the first day of competition, the Jamaican team is scheduled to compete last. Derice tries to psyche up his team, imitating the behavior of the Swiss. The team begins its run, essentially stumbling down the track and bouncing off the edges. Their end run time is 58.04, landing them in last place. Derice again tries to imitate the Swiss, but the team is fed up with his antics. Sanka sets him straight by pointing out that they cannot copy the movements of another team; they must get their own style. Derice insists that he just wants to be the best they can be. Sanka counters that "the best [they] can be is Jamaican," and that they didn't come all this way to forget about their heritage. Derice relents after realizing that his friend and their teammates are right. On the second day of competition, the Jamaican team is psyched for sledding. They pull together a push-start within a fraction of their previous time, and wind up getting off even faster than the Swiss team. Their finishing time is 56.53, rocketing them into 8th place! They are now considered contenders for the medal. That night while studying the track, Derice asks Irv about why he cheated. Irv explains that he'd become so focused on winning that he couldn't picture life without it, a horrible thing for an athlete to do. Irv tells Derice that he doesn't want him making the same mistakes that he's made 16 years earlier, and tells him to focus on tomorrow. The last day of competition arrives, and the fans are eager to see Jamaica's performance. They start off with an even better formation than yesterday, but the ancient sled is unknowingly in poor shape. A bad bounce sends it careening out of control, eventually turning over and sending the team on a terrible out-of-control trajectory. When the sled finally skids to a stop, several tense seconds pass before the team even moves. Finally, Derice regains consciousness and sees the finish line mere feet away. Paramedics rush down to tend to the Jamaicans, only to part as they rise to their feet. The guys hoist the sled over their shoulders and begin walking toward the finish line, determined to finish the race no matter what. The crowd, awestruck by the Jamaicans' performance, cheers them on as they finish. Everyone, even Mr. Bevil (now wearing a Jamaican souvenir shirt) shows their admiration: Even though their chances of winning are gone, Jamaica finishes with dignity and pride. Text at the end reveals that Derice, Sanka, Junior, and Yul returned to Jamaica as heroes - then four years later returned to the Olympics as equals.
  2. Derice Bannock fails to qualify for the 100-yard sprint for the Olympics due to a stupid accident
  3. The nick-names of coach Irving Blitzer (John Candy) were "Irv" and "Sled God". Mr. Bevil (Charles Hyatt) comes home and tells Junior that he has gotten his son a job with a brokerage house in Miami, which he is expected to take by the end of the month. Intimidated, Junior clams up and cannot say anything more.
  4. Comes from behavioral sciences Lewin applied them in the 50s to organizations Lewin thought that the group should be targeted first
  5. Techno-Structural Improving work content and flow, relationships among coworkers Job design and enrichment – psychological changes improve performance Participation – how much is too much? Still not defined Sociotechnical The fit between technology and social structure Industrial democratization, participative management, job enrichment, rescheduling Organization Transformation Change Beckhard viewed orgs as complex human systems To manage all the variables, leaders need a vision guided by beliefs and principals that can be translated into a mission and goals
  6. Meta-analysis helps
  7. Meta-analysis helps
  8. Meta-analysis helps
  9. when their cultural differences prevent them from obtaining the interesting and challenging work assignments that are needed to learn important job-related skills and to qualify for promotions
  10. Apparently, there is a rule stating that a team must compete in an international race to qualify. Previously, an Olympic trial would be considered an international race, but this time the committee decided to change the rules. However, Irv isn't fooled and immediately discerns the truth: His former coach (from the '72 Games and currently a primary judge of the '88 Games) Kurt Hemphill, is still punishing him for embarrassing the USA by cheating.
  11. David Lovgren – swiss captain