Comments on: OD: The Field of Organization Development Defined https://plusdelta.net/2009/10/oddefined/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oddefined Project Management, Change Management. Leadership Coaching Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Jonathan Troper https://plusdelta.net/2009/10/oddefined/#comment-7 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:53:16 +0000 https://www.plusdelta.net/?p=990#comment-7 Nice find. It’s interesting how times have changed. Some old-time OD folks decry how change management has turned OD from a values-driven profession that cared most about the fulfillment of the workers and then about profits to a scientific, top-down force to conform workers to the needs of technology-driven processes.

Of course, we know that most of our consulting is top-down, whether it comes from the top of an organization or the top of a department. But isn’t it refreshing when we learn about little revolutions from the middle, such as the infusion of a results-oriented workp environment led by two HR professionals at Best Buy! (See the cover article in Businessweek on December 11, 2006 for a nice telling of that story.)

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