Define Organisational Development. (O.D.)

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What is meant by Organisational Development. (O.D.)?

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Organisational development is planned, organisation-wide, managed from top to bottom; it increases organisational effectiveness and health through a planned intervention in an organisation process using knowledge of the behavioural science.

According to Wendell French, "O.D. refers to a long range effort to improve an organisation's problem-solving capabilities and its ability to cope with changes in its external environment with the help of external or internal behavioural-scientist consultants, or change agents, as they are sometimes called.

Blake and Mouton observe that "O.D. is a systematic way of introducing change based on a structural model for thinking; progressing in a programmatic sequence of steps from individual learning to organisation application, focused upon these silent and often negative attributes of culture which dictate action that so frequently contradict business logic with emphasis on confronting and resolving conflict as a pre requisite to valid problem-solving, and employing variety of techniques of organisational study and self-learning to bring about the necessary change.