August 2017
Beginner
168 pages
4h 2m
English
An early definition of organization development (OD) is “an effort planned, organizationwide, and managed from the top to increase organization effectiveness and health through planned interventions in the organization’s processes using behavioral-science knowledge” (Beckhard 1969, 9). More recent definitions—based on many years of practice and research—sound more like, “Organization development is the process of increasing organizational effectiveness and facilitating personal and organizational change through interventions driven by social and behavioral science knowledge” (Anderson 2015, 3).
The main difference between the old and new definition is that OD can happen anywhere in an organization. It can ...
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