Purpose of Organization Development and Design

• Appreciating the need that Organizations will change periodically to survive and be competitive;


• It is essential for Top Management including all Senior Managers to understand and to adapt dynamic changes in the organizations;

• To be aware on the stage when the need to adopt and to change within the Life-Cycle of an Organization;

• To be able to recognize key factors that effects organizations to change using in particular the followings: Strategy, Culture, Environment, Size, Technology, etc.

• As a tool of understanding and guidance for the Organization toward Design and Development;

• To be able to match the organizational development and design structures with the key business processes undertaken in the operation in all aspect of businesses.

• As a tool to guide and develop cutting-edge solution, with the provision to manage process of the reduction e.g. timescales, cost and disruption.

• To achieve the ability to lead similar OD exercises within your own organizations on future re-structuring purposes;
Reading Material References:
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

Organizational Development & Design

Organizations are complex systems. In order to succeed, companies must respond faster and better than their competition. Successful organizations provide clear direction, motivate employees, align processes, and develop rewards that reinforce positive and sustainable action.
It usually takes a practical and realistic view of an organizational development and design - the initiative should always drive into simple, clear, and measurable business results linking to each key priorities.
Reading Materials:
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

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