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Organization Development: Planned Environment Change

Fundamentals of Organization Development

Richard Beckhard

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Beckhard, R. (2010). Organization development: planned environment change. In D. Coghlan & A. B. Shani (Eds.), SAGE Library in Business and Management: Fundamentals of organization development (Vol. 4, pp. 25-25). London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781446261774.n2

Beckhard, Richard. "Organization Development: Planned Environment Change." In Fundamentals of Organization Development, edited by David Coghlan and Abraham B. Shani, 25, SAGE Library in Business and Management. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. doi: 10.4135/9781446261774.n2.

Beckhard, R 2010, 'Organization development: planned environment change', in Coghlan, D & Shani, AB (eds), Fundamentals of organization development, SAGE Library in Business and Management, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 25, viewed 13 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781446261774.n2.

Beckhard, Richard. "Organization Development: Planned Environment Change." Fundamentals of Organization Development. Eds. David Coghlan and Abraham B. Shani. Vol. 4. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. 25. SAGE Knowledge. Web. SAGE Library in Business and Management. 13 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781446261774.n2.

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  • I want to look now at organization development as a phenomenon. In this chapter, I will first develop an operational definition of organization development, or OD, as it is usually called. I will examine the characteristics of an effective and healthy organization, then look at the operational goals of organization-development efforts, and discuss some of the generalizable characteristics of organization-development efforts. I will then examine some types of organization conditions that produce such a planned-change effort. Finally, I will compare organization-development efforts with other plannedchange efforts such as management-development programs, organizationwide training efforts, and operations-research efforts. What Is Organization Development? Definition . Organization development is an effort (1) planned , (2) organization wide , and (3) managed from the top , to (4) increase organization effectiveness and health through (5) planned interventions in the organization's “processes”, using behavioral-science knowledge. 1. It is a planned change effort. An OD program involves a systematic diagnosis of the organization, the development of a strategic plan for improvement, and the mobilization of resources to carry out the effort. 2. It involves the total “ system ”. An organization-development effort is related to a total organization change such as a change in the…

    ‘Organization Development: Planned Environment Change’, RichardBeckhardOrganization Development: Strategies and Models(Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969), pp. 9–25. © 1969, Reprinted with permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.

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