About Organization Development (OD)
•Relatively
new field of study – 50’s & 60’s
•OD
is about how organizations and people function and how to get them function
better
•Start
Point – when the leader identifies an undesirable situation and seeks to change
it.
•Focus
- Making organizations function better (total system change).
•Orientation
- Action (achieving results through planned activities).
•No
unifying theory – just models of practice
OD is an organization improvement
strategy
