Topic 1 Odc
Topic 1 Odc
Topic 1 Odc
BMOD 5103
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE
• Managerial innovation: has reacted to the globalization and IT trends and has
speeded up their impact on organizations. New organizational forms, such as
strategic alliances, networks, and virtual corporations, provide organizations with
new methods about how to produce goods and deliver services. For example,
the strategic alliance has emerged as one of the crucial tools in strategy
implementation. No single organization can control the environmental and
market uncertainty it faces.
Importance of Change and Development
Helping organizations:
• assess themselves and their environments and revitalize and rebuild
their strategies, structures, and processes.
• members go beyond surface changes to transform the underlying
assumptions and values governing their behaviors.
• survive and prosper in a highly complex and changing world.
• streamlined and agile, more responsive to external demands, and
more ecologically sustainable.
• taking the initiative in innovating and managing change, rather than
simply responding to what has already happened.
• involve employees in key decisions and paying for performance rather
than for time.
• treating each human being as a complex person.
• increase the level of trust, enthusiasm, self and group responsibility
among members.
Models of Organizational Change
Theories of Planned Change
The following frameworks have received
widespread attention in OD and serve as the
primary foundation for a model of organizational
change (planned change).
• Lewin’s Change Model (3 Steps Model)
• Consultation with a Behavioral Science Expert. The practitioner has his or her own normative, frame of
reference and must be conscious of those assumptions and values. Sharing them with the client from the
beginning and establishes an open and collaborative atmosphere.
• Data Gathering and Preliminary Diagnosis. It involves gathering information and analyzing it to define the
problems. The four methods of gathering data are interviews, observation, questionnaires, and performance
data.
• Feedback to a Key Client or Group. The feedback helps determine the strengths and weaknesses of the
organization or unit under study.
• Joint Diagnosis of the Problem. Members discuss the feedback and explore with the OD practitioner whether
they want to work on identified problems.
• Joint Action Planning. The action to be taken depends on the diagnosis of the problem; the organisation
culture and environment; and the time and expense of the intervention.
• Action. The actual change from one organizational state to another. It may include reorganizing structures and
work designs, installing new methods and procedures, and reinforcing new behaviors.
• Data Gathering After Action. Because action research is a cyclical process, data must also be gathered after
the action has been taken to measure and determine the effects of the action and to feed the results back to the
Five Stage Model for OD Process
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