Trends in organization development
book
Organisation Development (OD) is an extraordinarly complex phenomenon of human society in which in the last few years there have been some interesting developments. Without making any claim to completeness the following topics would seem to have been a focus of interest in recent research on the subject: integration of several approaches to OD; greater emphasis on the use of theories; the complexity of the change process and automation of work and administrative processes. Allegro and Bruining outline two main approaches to OD: the process and the task structural approach. Steensma, Allegro and Knip discuss two OD principles: 1) clarifying norms and values in so far as they play a role in planning the change process 2) making use of explicitly stated theories, adapted to the problems to be dealt with. In the paper by Den Hartog and Van Amstel a project in a central government organisation is discussed. In the last paper, Van der Vlist shows how Leavitt's model of organisations can be used to understand why organisations are generally slow when it comes to change.
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TNO Identifier
168980
ISBN
90-6747-040-6
Publisher
Stichting CCOZ
Collation
58 p.
Place of publication
Amsterdam