IS TOO MUCH OD BASED ON INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING MODELS?
This critique is directed at two groups of OD practitioners—those who are helping with individual assessment, 360-feedback, and coaching, and those who try to fix organization-level problems by interventions designed for individual counseling. For example, some of the most sophisticated coaching projects involve interviewing the client’s role network to gather extensive information about that individual, without giving any thought to the potential impact of all this interviewing on the network.
Only experimental psychologists trained in pre-Milgram days would treat others as simply sources of data without analyzing what it means to them to be asked to give opinions about a colleague or ...