5 Culture, organisation development and change

            Allan Williams

The most pressing problems facing today’s leaders are those associated with change. Government, industry, unions and professional bodies are all having to adapt to their changing environments. The fortunate ones have been able to adapt by voluntarily managing a process of incremental or fundamental change. The less fortunate ones have been forced into unpopular change decisions involving downsizing and mergers in order to survive. Today’s leaders continue to seek strategies which will enable their organisations to cope with the need to change while satisfying a range of financial and social criteria. Organisation development (OD) represents a body of knowledge to help them ...

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