Organizational development

Organizational Development is the movement from top management down to the employees aimed at the development and effectiveness of the organization. It involves behavioral research at its core. Sometimes regarded as human systems, organizational development focuses of the impact of the employee on the overall organization while working on his specific area. While each organization already has at its disposal an existing management system consisting of simple planning, documentation, reporting, staff meetings. This system, even in an insufficient manner, already presents some organizational know-how. Organizational Development is a planned and systematic approach to enabling sustained organization performance through the involvement of its people. Others have described organizational development as a planned process of change in an organization's culture through the utilization of behavioral science technology, research and theory (Burke). Organizational development is a system-wide process of data collection, diagnosis, action planning, intervention, and evaluation aimed at (1) enhancing congruence among organizational structure, process, strategy, people and culture; (2) developing new and creative organizational solutions; and (3) developing the organization's self-renewing capacity. It occurs through the collaboration of organizational members working with a change agent using behavioral science theory, research and technology. Organization development focuses on people and its traditional humanistic values fit well with another of HR's roles: that of being the social conscience of the business or value champion. Many of the techniques of OD are being used by HR and training specialists. Advocates of Organization Development argue that at OD's heart is the ability to focus on all levels of the organization individual, group, inter-group, total system, and inter-organizational rather than limiting the practice to one or two levels, as in, say, management and leadership developmentin brief, an ability to understand the whole organization. Organizational development includes Management Development and Leadership Development.