Senior Officers in a National Military Organization Decided That Operations

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Essay

Senior officers in a national military organization decided that operations in supplies requisition were inefficient and costly.They brought in consultants who recommended that the entire requisition process be 'reengineered'.This involved throwing out the old practices and developing an entirely new set of work activities around workflow.However, like many reengineering changes, this intervention resulted in lower productivity, higher employee turnover, and other adverse outcomes.Discuss likely problems with the intervention in terms of systems theory.

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Definitions:

Social Development

The process by which individuals acquire skills, behaviors, and emotions that are considered desirable and appropriate by the society or community they live in.

Cognitive Development

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Debit Memorandum

An internal document sent from one department to another within a company to notify an adjustment of accounts, usually an increase in expense or a decrease in assets.

Merchandise Inventory

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