Organizational change:

The process by which organizations

redesign their structures and cultures to
move from their present state to some
desired future state to increase their
effectiveness

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CHANGE
CHANGE remains one of the few constants in
an increasingly unpredictable and complex
environment
Environment changes so organization must
change

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OD

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Organization Development is...

a system wide application of
behavioral science knowledge to the

planned development,
improvement, and
reinforcement of the strategies,
structures, and processes that
lead to organization
effectiveness.
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Table 1.1
Major Characteristics of the Field of OD

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 It is worth understanding what OD is not. It is

not training, personal development, team
development or team building, human resource
development (HRD), learning and
development (L&D) or a part of HR although it is
often mistakenly understood as some or all of
these.
OD interventions are about change so involve
people - but OD also develops processes,
systems and structures. The primary purpose of
OD is to develop the organization, not to train or
develop the staff.
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Why OD? Reasons?

Most cited reasons for beginning change
program:
Internal Factors
External Factors

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Why study organisation development?

1. Human resources -- our people -- may be a large fraction of our costs of doing
business. They certainly can make the difference between organizational success and
failure. We better know how to manage them.
2. Changing nature of the workplace. Our workers today want feedback on their
performance, a sense of accomplishment, feelings of value and worth, and
commitment to social responsibility. They need to be more efficient, to improve their
time management. And, of course, if we are to continue doing more work with less
people, we need to make our processes more efficient.
3. Global markets. Our environments are changing, and our organizations must also
change to survive and prosper. We need to be more responsible to and develop closer
partnerships with our customers. We must change to survive, and we argue that we
should attack the problems, not the symptoms, in a systematic, planned, humane
manner.
4. Accelerated rate of change. Taking an open-systems approach, we can easily identify
the competitions on an international scale for people, capital, physical resources, and
information. One big example technological change
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