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Organization Change and Development

Notes Rishabh could sense that his staff was wondering why he had not done something about
the situation, and he was aware that seven of the male members had withdrawn from the
club. Finally, he requested a meeting with Vaibhav Tyagi.
The Meeting

The meeting with Vaibhav did not go well. Vaibhav Tyagi was extremely defensive about
Anshul and shouted, “Anshul Chopra has more savvy about this business in his little
finger than the whole bunch of you put together.”

That night, Rishabh decided to go over Vaibhav’s head and talk to Gaurav Sharma. Sharma
was due to retire the next year, so he did not want to rock the boat in the final days of his
tenure with Sundale. He tried to convince Rishabh that it was just a silly rumour.
Rishabh’s working relationship with Vaibhav was very strained and he continued to
receive pressure from below. That week Rishabh quit the organisation and went to work
in the same capacity for the competition. The next day, Anshul, who had been working for
Sundale 5 months now, was promoted as the new assistant athletic director.

The Incident
Shraddha Gupta was bent! The entire athletic department, with the exception of Vaibhav,
was shocked. Shraddha had been very dedicated to her job and the organisation.
Additionally, there was never a doubt that she would get Rishabh’s job when he moved
up.
Shraddha Gupta burst into Vaibhav’s office and demanded to know why she had not got
the promotion. The next few minutes were rather ugly. Shraddha left Vaibhav’s office,
went to her own office, and began to cry. A knock at the door stopped the flow of tears, but
after entering, Aditi Goyal could tell immediately something was wrong. Shraddha
explained that she had just been fired, which started the tears again. Aditi soon joined her.
On her way home, although very concerned about Shraddha, Aditi was also concerned
about her own future, and her part-time job as a model. Shraddha had allowed her to miss
up to 8 hours from the Sundale Club each week to continue the modelling duties. Although
she did not really need the modelling money, the job itself was very important to her
from a personal satisfaction standpoint; she had to keep trim and well groomed, which
kept her thinking young. Also, the glamour aspect of the modelling profession satisfied
her ego.
Mani Singh, the social director, was also starting to feel the effects of the internal turmoil
created in the athletic department. Most of the Sundale Club’s income was derived from
the club’s social activities. Further, Deepak Kapur, the mixed activity manager, had noticed
the impact of the turmoil within his own department.
Mani, acting on her own behalf, spoke privately to all the athletic department managers
with the exception of Vaibhav Tyagi and Anshul Chopra. She had hoped to arrange a
meeting with Gaurav Sharma but found little support from that department because of
their fear of Vaibhav Tyagi.

10.2 Summary

 The unit covers the various selected structural intervention and shows the differences and
similarities as well as the overlap between Socio Technical Systems (STS), self managed
teams and others as discussed in the unit.

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