Future of Organizational DevelopmentNovember - 2016

TRADITIONAL

PRAGMATIC

ACADEMIC

Seied Beniamin HosseiniBIMS , University of Mysore

It is proposed that OD should do what is right by assuring that organizations promote positive social change and corporate citizenship.

values of human potential

Collaboration Trust Equality

OD should be establish

Create a common body of knowledge

be certified like most other professionals.

OD practitioners

should

OD professional associations, pragmatists argue that

Define minimum levels o f competencies

Pragmatic

Scholarly

focuses on

Understanding

Controlling change

Predicting

how change occurs

Unlike traditionalist and pragmatistscholars are concerned with creating valid knowledge, and with generalizing conclusions about

under what conditions it works well

Scholarly

TRENDS WITHIN OD AND THEIR IMPACT ONOD’S FUTURE

ORGANIZATIONALDEVELOPMENT

Will

•Have more conflict in the short term

•Be more integrated in the long term

TRADITIONAL

PRAGMATIC

ACADEMIC

Return to original humanistic values

Increasing focus on relevant practice

Increasing focus on process intervention

Emphasize values of effectiveness

Emphasize values of understanding, prediction

Search for variable that explain change and effectiveness

ECONOMY

WORKFORCE

TECHNOLOGY

ORGANIZATIONS

Contextual trends and their effect on OD’s Future

ECONOMY

More concerned with cultural diversity

More concerned ecologically

More concentrated wealth

The EconomyIncreasing concern over social and ecological consequencesCultural diversity – Governments face the difficult choice of preserving their culture ant the risk of being left out of the global economy. Income distribution – globalization of the economy is closely related to an increasing concentration of wealth in relatively few individuals, corporation and nations. Ecological sustainability – there are increasingly clear warnings that the ecosystem no longer can be treated as a factor of production and that success cannot be defined as the accumulation of wealth and material goods at the expense of the environment

WORKFORCE

Increasing diverse

Increasingly contingent

Increasingly educated

The WorkforceThe workforce is becoming moreEducated workforce demands higher wages, more involvement in decision making and continued investment of knowledge and skills.Diverse organizations, whether they operate primarily in their home country or abroad, will need to develop policies and operating styles that embrace the changing cultural, ethnic, gender and age diversity of the workforce.Contingent – the continued high rate of downsizings, re-engineering efforts, and mergers and acquisitions is forcing the workforce to become more contingent and less loyal.

More E-commerce

More productivity

Faster organizational processTECHNOLOGY

TechnologyInternet – the backbone of global economy . E-commerce –It involves buying and selling product sand services over the internet . Two types of E-commerce relevant to OD’s Future•Business-to-consumer – garners much attention and awareness because it is how the public participate sin E-commerce.•Business-to-business – more complex

More Knowledge, learning, and innovation based

More networked

ORGANIZATIONS

Organizationinvolves increasingly networked and knowledge based nature of organizations. The interventions help organizations become more streamlined and flexible, more capable of improving themselves continuously in response to economic and other trends and more effective. Networks – are highly adaptable and can disband and reform along different task or market lines as the circumstances demand.

OD in the long term will be:

More embedded in the organization’s operations

More technologically enabled

Shorter OD cycle times

More interdisciplinary

More diverse in client organization

More cross –cultural

OD will have more conflicts in the Short termTraditionalist fear that OD is becoming too corporate and may powerful stakeholders to promote goals inconsistent with OD’s social responsibility and humanistic values