Organizational Change And Development

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re built to build up the function that the company already has. Thus making each section of the business stronger. But organization development helps better each section of the business as well as the business as a whole. “The practice of organization development covers a wide spectrum of activities, with seemingly endless variations upon them” (Cumming and Worley, 2001). Covering all spectrums of activities leads to the reasons why companies use organization development and who uses them. Below is a table showing the departments within the company using organization development and reasons why.
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• Human resources -- our people -- may be a large fraction of our costs of doing business. They certainly can make the difference between organizational success and failure. We better know how to manage them.
• Changing nature of the workplace. Our workers today want feedback on their performance, a sense of accomplishment, feelings of value and worth, and commitment to social responsibility. They need to be more efficient, to improve their time management. And, of course, if we are to continue doing more work with less people, we need to make our processes more efficient.
• Global markets. Our environments are changing, and our organizations must also change to survive and prosper. We need to be more responsible to and develop closer partnerships with our customers. We must change to survive, and we argue that we should attack the problems, not the symptoms, in a systematic, planned, humane manner.
• Accelerated rate of change. Taking an open-systems approach, we can easily identify the competitions on an international scale for people, capital, physical resources, and information.
Organization development is a continuous process if you want to continue to develop an effective business. The process goes in this order: “entry, start-up and contracting, assessment and diagnosis, feedback, action planning, interv...