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TRADITIONAL Return to original humanistic values Increasing focus on process intervention PRAGMATIC Emphasize values of effectiveness Increasing focus on relevant practice
ACADEMIC Emphasize values of understanding, prediction, and control Search for variable that explain change and effectiveness
More embedded in the organizations operations More technologically enabled Shorter OD cycle times More interdisciplinary More diverse in client organization More cross cultural More concerned with ecological sustainability
Traditional
The first trend has to do with increasing calls for a return to ODs traditional and others, traditionalist argue that OD should be driven by long established values of human potential, equality, trust, and collaboration. It is proposed that OD should do what is right by assuring that organizations promote positive social change and corporate citizenship.
Pragmatic
related to increasing demands for professionalization of the field and an emphasis on relevance. Championed by change management practices at large consulting firms and some OD professional associations, pragmatists argue that OD practitioners should be certified like most other professionals. OD should require certification of members, create a common body of knowledge, define minimum levels o f competencies, and institute other regulatory infrastructure.
Scholarly
focuses on understanding, predicting an controlling change. Unlike traditionalist and pragmatist, scholars are concerned with creating valid knowledge, and with generalizing conclusions about how change occurs, how it is triggered, under what conditions it works well and so on.
The Workforce
The workforce is becoming more: 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.
Technology Internet the backbone of global economy. E-commerce an economy that knows no boundaries. It involves buying and selling products and services over the internet. Two types of E-commerce relevant to ODs Future Business-to-consumer garners much attention and awareness because it is how the public participates in E-commerce. Business-to-business more complex
Organization involves 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 Cycle Times will be Shorter new information technologies will expedite certain steps in the change process. In coming years, new technologies such as groupware and video conferencing, will increasingly be used to bring more people together faster than ever before. There is a real potential to reduce dramatically the time required to perform many OD practices.
OD will be more Interdisciplinary OD will continue to become more interdisciplinary and rely on different perspectives and approaches to develop and change organizations. It will balance human fulfillment and economic performance, provide a fuller recognition of the systemic and dynamic nature of organizations and develop improved techniques for managing large scale, and change w/n and across natural cultures.
Concepts that can be used to describe systems change and may yield new insights into the change process
Emergence Instability Phase transitions Bifurcation self-organization Strange attractors
Concepts that are to be translated into frameworks useful for OD practitioners Small worlds Synchrony Connectedness Cascades Interaction Rules
Global Social Change Organizations the increasing concentration of wealth and globalization of the economy will create a plethora of opportunities for OD to assists developing countries, disadvantage citizens and ecology.
New concepts, frameworks and philosophies that Represents opportunities to make ecological sustainability a more deliberate and intentional value of organizational growth Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economics (CERES) Natural Capitalism suggests that business strategies build around the productive use of natural resources can solve environmental problems at a profit. Natural Step proposes a set of guidelines for development and a process of change that aligns with an OD perspective. It utilizes four system
conditions Substances from within the earth must not systematically increase in the ecosphere Substances produced by society must not systematically increase in the ecosphere The physical ability of nature to renew itself must not be diminished The basic human needs of all people need to be met with fairness and efficiency