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Essay / Organizational Development - 1300
Organizational development (OD) has become increasingly important for today's organizations because the world is changing so quickly that organizations must find ways to be more effective, more innovative, more customer-focused and more agile. Cumming and Worley (1997) define organizational development as “a process that applies a broad range of behavioral science knowledge and practices to help organizations strengthen their capacity for change and achieve greater effectiveness” (p. 1 ). Therefore, OD will help organizations understand how people react to change and what methods of change can work with the resistance to change that usually occurs in changing organizations. As my concentration in the SPS program is organizational development, it is important to study organizational intervention and change implementation in order to know how to operate and use the change methods that seem vital to solving the problems that arise. What I Learned First in the CourseIn this course, I learned that change methods can be divided into four objectives: adaptable, planning, structuring, improving, and supportive (Holman, Devane, & Cady, 2007). In addition to the objective, Holman, Devane, and Cady (2007) assert that individuals and organizations must consider the type of system, size of the event, duration, cycle, and preparation of the practitioner, as well as as specific resource needs. As there are many methods to learn about, the IIMT article helped me understand in depth the methods that I thought were interesting. I chose to study Appreciative Inquiry of Adaptable Methods, Scenario Thinking of Planning Methods, Participatory Design Workshop of Structuring Methods and the Six Sigma Approach to Method Improvement. In carrying out this mission, ...... middle of document ...... experiences and information related to the problems. This was my first time participating in an aquarium conversation and I found it to be a simple and effective technique for building trust and mutual understanding and improving relationships between members. Overall, the study of organizational intervention and change implementation through reading the book, attending the course, completing assignments such as IIMT and TIMPF, participating in the process of organizational interventions and having a fishbowl conversation helps me become well-versed in change models, work effectively in a team, and learn from the experiences and experiences of my classmates. skill. Most importantly, I gained confidence in areas where I had little or no experience before. Now I can have the ability to diagnose an organization's problems and implement appropriate change methods..