Organizational Development

Organizational Development

Crystol Weidger

BUS370: Organizational Development

Insructor: Jerry Spight

May 6, 2013

Organizational Development

Organizations are companies and industry that have been created out of need or a vision and the desire to provide services or a product to a certain group of people. The intentions of organizations as time lapses can be transformed because of trends that are forming, and the change in economy or maybe because needs change. Change is inevitable in all things and is necessary for development. Due to these reasons organizational development is needed in organizations. This brings us to the fact that with today’s constant changes in the world, organizations have chosen to use what is known as Organizational Development (OD) to help assist in the creating of a more effective and healthier organization and the promotion of personal growth and development which is the result of systematic change. Our professional and personal lives are continuously being affected by change. Change allows us to be able to use the different types of strategies to achieve our goals in life whether they are personal or professional. The research that I have done on OD processes will help to enable me in my present job and also in my future with professional goals that I choose.

Organizational Development

“Organizational development is defined as an emerging discipline aimed at improving the effectiveness an organization and its members through a systematic change program (Brown, 2011). We are in a unique time when it comes to organizational development, technology is pushing the envelope of what is possible; change is the operative word, according to Craig R. Seal (2002). He also states that there is a new group of “knowledge workers” who are not satisfied with what is known as traditional management technologies. Business requires constant change to be able to maintain a competitive advantage in manpower, profit, production and even with...