Organisation development foundation

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Group No.1

WELCOME


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PARTICIPATION AND

EMPOWERMENT

Most important foundation oforganization development

Empower means that to give someone

power, which is done by givingindividuals the authority to make

decisions, to contribute their ideas, to

exert influence, and to be responsible.Participation is an effective form of

empowerment.


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OD interventions are basically methods

for increasing participation.

Examples are autonomous work groups,

quality circles, team building, survey

feedback, quality of work life programs,

search conferences.


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TEAMS AND TEAMWORK

Work team are building blocks oforganizations.

Team are important for a number of

reasons.

first, individual behavior is rooted in the

socio cultural norms and values of the

work team. Second ,people must work together to

accomplish the task goal

Third, teams create synergy.


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Fourth, teams satisfy peoples need forsocial interaction, status, recognition,

and respect-nature human nature.

OD Interventions are specificallydesigned to improve team performance.

Examples are team building, intergroup

teambuilding, process consultation,quality circles etc


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PARALLEL LEARNING

STRUCTURES

DALE and ZAND introduced this concept in1974 under the label collateral organization

This defined it is a supplemental organization

coexisting with the usual, formal organization. The purpose of the collateral organization is

to deal with ill-structured problems the formal

organizations is unable to resolve.

Parallel structures are a vehicle for learninghow to change the system, and then leading

the change process.


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This help people break free of thenormal constraints imposed by the

organization, engage in genuine inquiry

and experimentation, and initiateneeded changes.

Parallel learning structures are often the

best way to initiate change in largebureaucratic organizations.


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A NORMATIVEREEDUCATIVE

STRATEGY OF CHANGING

CHIN and BENNE describes 3 types of strategies forchanging.

Empirical- rational self interest

Normative reeducative

Power-coercive strategies

OD is based on primarily on a normative-reeducative strategy and secondarily on arational-empirical strategy.


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APPLIED BEHAVIORAL

SCIENCE

OD is the application of behavioral scienceknowledge, practices and skills ongoing systems

in collaboration with system members.

Composition of Applied Behavioral science

Behavioral Science Theory

Behavioral Science Research

Practice Theory

Practice Research


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ACTION RESEARCH

The action research model- a data-based,problem solving method that replicates the steps

involved in the scientific method of inquiry.

It involved 3 processes : data collection, feedback

of the data to the client system members, action

planning based on the data.

Action Research is a method that combines

learning and doing


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