History of organizational development
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Manu Melwin JoyAssistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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History of OD
• Kurt Lewin (1898–1947) is widely recognized as the founding father of OD, although he died before the concept became current in the mid-1950s.
• From Lewin came the ideas of group dynamics and action research which underpin the basic OD process as well as providing its collaborative consultant/client ethos.
History of OD
• Institutionally, Lewin founded the "Research Center for Group Dynamics" (RCGD) at MIT, which moved to Michigan after his death.
• RCGD colleagues were among those who founded the National Training Laboratories (NTL), from which the T-Groups and group-based OD emerged.
History of OD
• Douglas McGregor and Richard
Beckhard while "consulting
together at General Mills in the
1950s, the two coined the term
organization development (OD) to
describe an innovative bottoms-up
change effort that fit no traditional
consulting categories"
History of OD
• 1947 – National Training
Laboratories Founded NTL in USA
advances the research into applied
behavioural sciences, develops
understand of change agent role and
experiential learning.
• 1950’s – Human Relations Movement
Growth of social and developmental
psychology.
History of OD
• 1951 – Socio-Technical System Thinking
(STS) Tavistock Institute (UK) research
shows that combining social factors with
technological changes increases
effectiveness, efficiency and moral.
• 1967 – Survey Research Methods Likert
and Mann pioneer survey feedback to help
organizational leaders understand the impact
they have on the people and performance of
the organization.
History of OD
• 1968 – Creation of the T Group Lewin (USA)
and Tavistock Institute develops unstructured
group laboratory training, and action learning
sets.
• 1974 – OD as Planned approach to Change
Friedlander and Brown research OD as a
method of planned change effort
• 1980’s – General Systems Theory Neilsen and
Schein promote OD as activities that influence
the social processes within an organisation. -
History of OD
• 1997 – Organizational Effectiveness Linking the application of OD in planned development interventions to the improvement of organizational effectiveness.
• 2000’s to Present – Complexity Theory OD continues to be informed by new insights and research in a number of disciplines including natural sciences, biology and physics as well as developments in the social and behavioural sciences.
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Five Stems of OD PracticeCurrent Practice
Laboratory Training
Action Research/Survey Feedback
Participative Management
Quality of Work Life
Strategic Change
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
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