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Reflections on the relation between Institutional Transformation and Organizational Development

By NA - Leaders, managers, and consultants in organizations have used the word change frequently and even carelessly. People note that organizations are facing change when they are in continuing (or even accelerating) decline, when they are focused on survival, when they expand rapidly, when they appear hyperactive and frantic, and, more rarely, when they want to be innovative and generative. (Added: 10-Feb-2003 Hits: 1496 )

Emergence in Organisations

By Richard Seel - In this article I offer some reflections on emergence in organisations and suggest seven 'conditions' which might help to facilitate emergent change. I also outline a process�'emergent inquiry'�which can be used to help emergent creativity. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 1452 )

Organizational Ecology Has a Bright Future.

By Organization Studies - Organizational ecology is here to stay. Clearly, Michael Hannan and John Freeman's paradigm-building programme, which started with their classic 1977 article 'The population ecology of organizations' in the American Journal of Sociology, has been successful. By now, at the start of the 21st century, the flourishing organizational ecology population has produced hundreds of studies into the fate of industries and organizations (e.g. Baum 1996). (Added: 10-Dec-2002 Hits: 1099 )

Organizational Development

By n a - The concept of the learning organization is that the successful organization must � and does � continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in environment and to grow. This raises a range of scholarly and theoretical questions relating to what it means for an organization to learn, and practical questions around what organizations need to do in order to learn and adapt. (Added: 11-Dec-2006 Hits: 1713 )

The: Organizational Development in a Law Enforcement Environment.

By Barbara French - Today's law enforcement organizations engage new organizational practices that focus on empowerment, teamwork, and participative management. [1] Experts agree that implementation of these designs in law enforcement environments proves challenging. [2] The savvy implementation for organizational change remains a primary issue for law enforcement. (Added: 10-Dec-2002 Hits: 1888 )

Addictive Organizations

By Tom Heuerman - Many people in organizations are in emotional pain. The suffering is sharp and searing--deep in the souls of so many. The source of much of this unnecessary anguish is, I believe, a worldview that alienates people from others, themselves, and the natural world. Instead of feeling their heartache and acting to end much of it by changing their beliefs and behavior, people separate themselves from their inner lives and pursue mechanically the promises of Newtonian science (Added: 23-Feb-2001 Hits: 1405 )

The Learning Organization - Principles, Theory and Practice

By Peter Senge - "Learning organizations [are] organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together." Says author Peter Senge. Learn more about the theory and practices for organizational development. (Added: 11-Dec-2006 Hits: 1374 )

Link Staff Training with Organizational Improvement Goals

By Patrice Spath - To continuously improve the quality and safety of patient care, healthcare organizations must link employee education and training programs with strategic improvement goals. (Added: 28-Nov-2003 Hits: 1705 )

Socio Technical Systems

By Quarterman Lee - Basics fo socio technical systems. Includes link to Principles of Socio Technical Systems Design (Added: 8-Mar-2003 Hits: 1023 )

What Is Organization Development (Short article)

By Training & Development - The following excerpt has been adapted from "Principles of Organization Development," a revised issue by Rima Shaffer, Info-line No. 8812. (Added: 10-Dec-2002 Hits: 4567 )

Business Spirit Journal - Organizational Transformation: Liberating the Corporate Soul - Richard Barrett

By Richard Barrett - Ask any group of savvy CEOs to tell you the most valuable piece of information they could have, and they will say, %u201CHow to unleash innovation and creativity in my work place?%u201D (Added: 4-Sep-2003 Hits: 1329 )

Complexity and Organizational Development

By Richard Seel - Based on a seminar I ran at South Bank University, this piece is a little out of date now but still offers a reasonable introduction to some of the basic concepts of complexity theory and how they might have some practical application to organisational change and development. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 2939 )

Principles for Creating a Statewide Online Learning Organization: The Process and Decisions Underlying the Creation of Colorado Online Learning

By Stevan Kalmon - Note: This article was originally published in The Technology Source (http://ts.mivu.org/) as: Stevan Kalmon "Principles for Creating a Statewide Online Learning Organization: The Process and Decisions Underlying the Creation of Colorado Online Learning" The Technology Source, January/February 2003. Available online at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1034. The article is reprinted here with permission of the publisher. (Added: 11-Dec-2006 Hits: 544 )

Describing Culture: From Diagnosis to Inquiry

By Richard Seel - For the change agent working in a traditional OD framework, describing culture is the first step in a rational change process which involves moving an organisation from �here� to �there�. For the practitioner who works from a complex or living systems perspective, describing culture is also vital�this time as a key part of the change process itself. This article espouses the second approach and outlines a number of ways of facilitating a rich collaborative inquiry into organisational culture. It also presents a �simple rules� approach to cultural description which offers a new way of enabling people to articulate their own culture and negotiate to change it. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 2731 )

Organization Development

By Robert H. Rouda and Mitchell E. Kusy, Jr. - Learn how to implement OD in your organization. To be successful, OD must have the buy-in, ownership, and involvement of all stakeholders, not just of the employees throughout the organization. OD is usually facilitated by change agents -- people or teams that have the responsibility for initiating and managing the change effort. These change agents may be either employees of the organization (internal consultants) or people from outside the organization (external consultants.) (Added: 17-Jan-2007 Hits: 1468 )

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