HR Basics: Organziational Development

HR Basics is a series of short courses, designed to highlight what you need to know about a particular human resource management topic. In today’s HR Basics, we explore organizational development, what it is and it’s key concepts.

Organization development engages people to accomplish better organizational performance. OD represents purposeful and meaningful change for the better. Central to organizational development is employee engagement. Engaged employees as those who are involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace.

To best understand organizational development, practitioners first need to be able to define organizational development and then understand and apply key concepts of organizational development in practice today. Organizational development is a planned effort, managed by leadership and supported by employees, to increase employee engagement and organization effectiveness through planned change in processes and systems.

Organizational development practices develop strategy for increasing organizational performance. Today's organizations operate in a rapidly changing environment. Organization development involves an ongoing, systematic process of implementing effective organizational change. Consequently, one of the most important assets for an organization is the ability to manage change.

Executed successfully, organizational development maximize employees’ potential and aligns their behavior with organizational strategy. Organizational Development assess needs and creates purposeful, meaningful change for the better.

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