Organizational Development (OD) has a long history of helping organizations develop their capabilities while maintaining human values. Learn more about the OD field, techniques for developing organizations and more.
By Tom Heuerman
- Many people in organizations are in emotional pain. The suffering is sharp and searing--deep in the souls of so many. The source of much of this unnecessary anguish is, I believe, a worldview that alienates people from others, themselves, and the natural world. Instead of feeling their heartache and acting to end much of it by changing their beliefs and behavior, people separate themselves from their inner lives and pursue mechanically the promises of Newtonian science
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By Richard Seel
- In this paper I explore some of the mechanisms which underlie large group dynamics and show how they can help to illumine some of the destructive processes which may occur when more than about a dozen people meet together. These insights will be used to help explain the dynamics of an organisational event in which a group of experienced consultants were reduced to feelings of profound incompetence and helplessness.
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By NA
- Defining the knowledge and skill necessary for competence in OD is an essential step for building the field of O.D. into a profession. In the last twenty years, a committee from The O.D. Institute, headed by Roland Sullivan, RODC, has involved over 2,500 people from around the world in this task
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By Richard Barrett
- Ask any group of savvy CEOs to tell you the most valuable piece of information they could have, and they will say, %u201CHow to unleash innovation and creativity in my work place?%u201D
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By Richard Seel
- Based on a seminar I ran at South Bank University, this piece is a little out of date now but still offers a reasonable introduction to some of the basic concepts of complexity theory and how they might have some practical application to organisational change and development.
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