Week 6 Assignment: ( 2 portions)

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 
How do you think the changing nature of work, as described in Chapter 16, impacts OD? ( Portion 1 Due Tonight) 

(Portion 2 Due Saturday) 
Reply to at least two of your classmates.  Be constructive and professional in your responses. (125 Words each= 250 Words in total)
*** CLASSMATE RESPONSES WILL BE  ATTACHED THIS AFTERNOON**

Week 6_ Team Assignment
 
Imagine that you are charged with developing a training and development plan for an advertising firm. The training plan should ensure that your business strategies and priorities are aligned. The report should capture recent trends in organizational training, especially in relation to the training of multicultural and multi-generational workforces and explain how organizations can use training to gain competitive advantage. Stakeholders within the organization are not convinced of the value of onboarding as they are interested in starting new employees as soon as possible due to organizational pressure to get mission-critical work accomplished. These stakeholders will need a business case for onboarding as well as team training and cross training. 

Write a minimum 600-word paper that includes the following components:
o   -Current trends in organizational training – 
o   -Role and importance of onboarding new employees- 
o   -Different training considerations and motivational strategies for working with different types of employees-
o   -Team training methods –