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

CHAPTER FIVE

Competencies of OD Practitioners

Christopher G. Worley, William J. Rothwell, and Roland L. Sullivan

Consulting competencies: Any list of the professional capabilities of an OD consultant is extensive—something like a combination of the Boy Scouts’ law, requirements for admission to heaven, and the essential elements for securing tenure at an Ivy League college.

—Lippitt and Lippitt, 1978, p. 94.

 

 

 

 

 

Say “competency” in a management meeting and you are likely to have about the same effect as if you shouted “fire” in a crowded theater—however, instead of inciting a panic, confusion usually ensues. While competency modeling is supplanting work analysis as the foundation for human resource management and is therefore increasingly ...