Organisational Change

7.3 METHODOLOGICAL PLANNING

The process of diagnosis depends entirely on the theoretical constructs that the diagnostician works with. These constructs help one understand an organisation, its mode of functioning, its various sub-systems, its structure and design, and so on. They help in developing models focussing on individual, intrapersonal and interpersonal processes, on group and group processes, and on the total organisation and its macro processes.

The process of diagnosis includes two basic features, divergence and convergence. Divergence starts from the focal point of a theory. From the theory constructs are evolved; they lead to operational models; operational models indicate the network of variables to be studied; variables under study ...