
Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR

Healthy organizations are adaptable, agile and ethical; they value employees and make the employment deal genuinely mutual in terms of risks and returns.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
‘Organization Development’, which means a system-wide change effort.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
It involves looking at the ways social phenomena
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
design processes to help people, groups, and organizations to function better.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
based on what you know about each person.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
continuous external adaptation to a rapidly changing environment; corresponding internal integration that will support the success of the external adaptation.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
to adapt our approaches in a changing work context without compromising our core values.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
you can use Systems theory to help you understand where the presenting issues are located in the organization and how they are reinforced by other parts of the system.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
Therefore leaders and change agents need to accept they cannot manage change, all they can do is to support the organization to move towards the ‘edge of chaos’ and self-manage their change journey.