Organization Development

Organization development is a deliberately planned, organization-wide effort to increase an organization's effectiveness and/or efficiency, and/or to enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals. Organization development theorists and practitioners define Organization development in various ways. Its multiplicity of definitions reflects the complexity of the discipline and is responsible for its lack of understanding.
Organization development is an ongoing, systematic process of implementing effective organizational change. Organization development is known as both a field of science focused on understanding and managing organizational change and as a field of scientific study and inquiry. It is interdisciplinary in nature and draws on sociology, psychology, particularly industrial and organizational psychology, and theories of motivation, learning, and personality. Although behavioral science has provided the basic foundation for the study and practice of Organization development, new and emerging fields of study have made their presence felt. Experts in systems thinking and organizational learning, structure of intuition in decision making, and coaching (to name a few) whose perspective is not steeped in just the behavioral sciences, but a much more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach, have emerged as Organization development catalysts or tools.
Organization development is a growing field that is responsive to many new approaches