I want to thank you in advance. I'm changing careers, and I'm trying to get the skills and knowledge and understandings I need. Below is the case study.

Overview

Alignment with the business or organizational strategy will provide support for your OD efforts. Strategic alignment or goal alignment is the process by which you keep your OD efforts oriented toward your organization's overarching goals.If the top management team can clearly see how planning and completing an OD evaluation will benefit the organization's strategic goals, they will often listen and provide resources for the evaluation.

The scope of this project is to update Southwest Airlines' technology and staff. This project is necessary to avoid the type of meltdown experienced over the holidays and to ensure that Southwest Airlines is able to meet the needs of its customers and employees. The scope of this project is critical in order to ensure that Southwest Airlines is able to operate efficiently, safely, and cost-effectively.

Instructions

• Using your case study, provide the information that will demonstrate an alignment between the change evaluation and the organization's strategic goals.
  • Define your organization's "organizational level strategic goals" .
    • Organizational-level strategic goals (aka strategic goals) are the specific financial and nonfinancial objectives and results an organization aims to achieve over a specific period, usually the next 3 to 5 years.
  • Describe the connection between the organizational-level strategic goals and the goal of the OD evaluation project, and how the project will be helpful to the connection.