Hrmd650 Organizational Development And Barriers Assessment Answers

Question 

Discussion answered that involves 2 short videos and a story. 

Barriers to Change-how I repaired My Own Heart https://www.ted.com/talks/tal_golesworthy_how_i_repaired_my_own_heart

The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Shepherd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6yl8yIZUI

The discussion that needs to be answered is below:

After watching the videos,

1) Barriers to Change - How I repaired my own Heart, and

2) Miss Ernestine and reading Who Moved my Cheese, discuss the need for change and some of the barriers to change. What inspires us to change? What doesn't? What lessons can we take away from the videos and story and share with others?

Answer

Change: How they inspired

We feel the need to change in order to improve the current situation. There are times in life when we feel that it is the end of the world. The failure in job or life is not the end, there is always hope for a better future. Change is not just the end of something it should be seen as the beginning of something new as well.  The adventure of changing the current situation and find the meaning of life are important in the process. Once we realize that change is not powerful enough to end it all and we all have the strength to overcome it, we feel free. Just like Ham and Haw realized that they should not waste time on the insecurity and complexity caused by the fear, rather by breaking the fear they can be free and build a better future (Johnson, 2007).

Lack of motivation does not inspire us to change. It is the fear of the unknown future that causes so much anxiety among the people who are suffering the change. Haw realized that if they do not accept the change immediately they will fail to survive and become extinct, as he wrote this on their wall. Our perception of seeing change as the end of something fails to motivate us accepting the change and move on. The employees value the security more than the organizational productivity. Their unwillingness to accept the change in organizational culture hampers the company performance.  

In the video engineer Tal Golesworthy expressed his story of suffering and survival from an inherited disorder called Marfan syndrome (Golesworthy, 2011).  In this disease the connective tissues of the body do not work in orderly fashion. He identified the problem with the lifetime anticoagulation therapy that was a common procedure at that time to treat this (Oliveira & Canhão, 2014). As an engineer he saw it as a plumbing problem. He treated his own heart condition by using basic aeronautical procedures. He changed the aortic dilation by externally wrapping it and ensures that smooth blood flow. However he struggled to convince the doctors to apply the procedure on him in the surgery. After the initial hesitance for the risks the doctors are treating 40 patients with the procedure that he engineered to treat his own heart (Mundasad, 2013).

The documentary shows the inspiring story of world’s oldest body builder Ernestine Shepherd (Youtube, 2014). She overcame all the physical and mental problems by bodybuilding. Her story just highlights how we, human beings are capable of doing anything. Our are extremely powerful but in order to direct the power in an useful direction, we must take chances in life.

The story by Johnson tells us to not depend on others so much that we forget to the freedom. We must not waste the precious time of our lives in analysis and remorse over a change.  We must overcome that and go ahead in our lives. Life has so many beautiful moments to offer, if we do not take chances we will never be able to experience them.

Reference

Golesworthy, T. (2011). How I repaired my own heart. Ted.com. Retrieved 23 August 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/tal_golesworthy_how_i_repaired_my_own_heart

Johnson, S. (2007). Who moved my cheese?. Alexandria, Va.: Alexandria Library.

Mundasad, S. (2013). The engineer who fixed his own heart and others too - BBC News. BBC News. Retrieved 23 August 2017, from https://www.bbc.com/news/health-24524027

Oliveira, P., & Canhão, H. (2014). Users as Service Innovators: Evidence Across Healthcare and Financial Services.

The Remarkable Story of Ernestine Shepherd. (2014). YouTube. Retrieved 23 August 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6yl8yIZUI