A set of values, assumptions and beliefs constitutes an integral part of organization development, shaping the goals and methods of the field and distinguishing Organisational Development from other improvement strategies. Belief: A belief is a proposition about how the world works that the individual accepts as true; it is a cognitive fact (connected with thinking or conscious mental […]
Organisational Development has evolved over the past 60 years from the applications of behavioural science knowledge and techniques to solving organisational problems. It started in the 1940s at MIT and is developed by an applied social scientist such as Kurt Lewin. It is influenced by Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow. During the period around World War II, Lewin […]
Organization: An organization is a set up which brings together individuals from different backgrounds, of varied interests and specializations on a common platform for them to work as a single unit and achieve certain predefined goals. Katz, Kahn and Hanna see an organization as a system. An organization is an open system (in science open […]