Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CHALLENGES FACING OD IN THE FUTURE?

Exhibit 41.6 summarizes many of the key challenges facing OD in the future. The good news for OD is that the need for well-planned and well-executed OD can bring to organizations in times of dynamic change could not be greater throughout the world. The bad news is that it will also likely be times when leaders are preoccupied with performance and cost-cutting measures, pressured to improve bottom-line short-term results, pressed for time, and reluctant to invest resources in any efforts that do not produce quick results. This means that, for OD to take advantage of the considerable need for OD, practitioners will have to do a much better job of getting the attention of top-level leaders, ...