Organization development. Organization development (OD) is a deliberately planned, organization-wide effort to increase an organization's effectiveness and/or efficiency and/or to enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals.
OD theorists and practitioners define it in various ways. Its multiplicity of definition reflects the complexity of the discipline and is responsible for its lack of understanding. For example, Vasudevan has referred to OD being about promoting organizational readiness to meet change,[citation needed] and it has been said that OD is a systemic learning and development strategy intended to change the basics of beliefs, attitudes and relevance of values, and structure of the current organization to better absorb disruptive technologies, shrinking or exploding market opportunities and ensuing challenges and chaos. It is worth understanding what OD is not. Overview[edit] Organization development is an ongoing, systematic process of implementing effective organizational change. [edit] Other Group Resources. CGL Home | Mailing list | Join | Humor What/Who is CGL? | Other Group Resources Highlighted sections have the most-recently updated resources.
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