What is OD? Fellow BOLD member and senior HR/OD professional, Rise Cuifia, has helped her internal clients understand what OD is by using these definitions:
- Partnering between client and consultant in the interest of improving organizational culture and performance
- Use of systems thinking, process consultation, continuous improvement, and related tools in the design of operations of organizations
- The art of creating and maintaining good organizations
The science of peoples' behavior in organizations
The process of helping groups with people issues (teams)
The craft of developing individuals' and groups' potential
A discipline of management science that formalizes organizational values, vision, learning, behavior and change
Building the culture of, promoting alignment in, and improving the design of organizations
The process of promoting fundamental change, as opposed to short-term problem solving or procedural improvement
Making organizations more aware of their behavior, systems and patterns so that they can function more effectively
An educational strategy to change the beliefs, attitudes, values and structure of organizations so that they can better adapt to change
A collaborative relationship between change agents and constituents of a client system in the interest of organizational improvement
An effort to improve organizations' visioning, empowerment, learning and problem-solving processes
Wikipedia also has a good primer on the history of OD and the types of OD interventions.
Harvard Business Review also has great online resources on OD.
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