Managing Change

Introduction

You may have picked up this book because things aren’t going very well at work or it could be that you just want to improve your current workplace or organization. There are probably also a lot of you who just can’t seem to figure out what to do to improve things at work or in your organization.

Organization Development can give you hints and ideas on what steps you can take in order to achieve these goals.

The concept of Organization Development, however, isn’t just one single method that you can immediately apply. It’s a label of sorts that’s used to refer to a collection of various techniques and ideas. You can think of this like how the term “Ball games” is an umbrella term for many different sports that use a ball such as baseball, soccer, and table tennis, among many others.

Although the concept of “Organization Development” evolved during the 1930s, it only began gaining popularity in Japan in 2015 or so. In the United States, it began to take off in the 1960s. Before that, it was more common to use the term “Workplace Stimulation” or “Organization Stimulation” when dealing with office or organization improvement (and these terms are still used now).

As such, you can take all these three terms to mean the same thing.

Organization Development is a term adopted from the global stage. It was first coined in the United States in 1958, and it developed and spread mainly in America and Europe to include a wide array of theories and techniques. Now, an increasing ...