Monday, January 31, 2011

What is Organizational Development

Organizational Development
One of the old and classic definitions of organization development comes from Richard Beckhard’s 1969 Organization Development: Strategies and Models: He said that Organizational Development is an effort:

• How to plan,
• How to organize Organizational-wide,
• How to manage business from the top,
• How to increase organization effectiveness and health through
• How to plan interventions within organizations “processes,” using the behavioral-science knowledge.
OD is also a field of direction and interventions in the processes of human systems (formal and informal groups, organizations, communities, and societies) in order to increase their effectiveness and health using a variety of disciplines, it mostly applied by behavioral sciences. It requires practitioners to be conscious about the values guiding their practice and focuses on achieving its results through people.
Another definition of OD can be defined as the body of knowledge and practice that enhances organizational performance and individual development, that views the organization as a complex system of systems that exist within a larger organizational system, which has its own attributes and degrees of alignment.
Reference:
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Organizational_structure
bright-training-safety-wear. com/organizationalskillsdevelopment.htm
managementhelp. org/org_chng/org_chng.htm
fao. org/docrep/w7503e/w7503e05.htm
gov.ns. ca/psc/v2/hrCentre/resources/ode/
managementhelp. org/org_thry/design.htm

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