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

1 Collaborative relations

OD is there to help the organization to prepare itself internally to deliver the challenging external ambitions.

make the improvement sustainable.’

So the concept includes unfreezing (destabilising the status quo), movement (creating the motivation to learn – aided by Action Research approach), and then refreezing (seeks to stabilize the group at a new quasi-stationary equilibrium in order to ensure that the new behaviours are relatively safe from regression).

one test of a good leader is the ability to decide when it is more effective to share decision making with employees.

expanding understanding of the interdependencies they have with others in the organization,

If leaders pay attention to those causal effects they will have data as to how to ‘move’ and ‘improve’ the organization.

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.

whose support is essential to the project.