Organizational Development

Organizational development (OD) is an organizational improvement strategy that utilizes behavioral science principles and practices to increase individual and organizational effectiveness. Organizations must address the opportunities and challenges in successfully managing change by applying a systems approach to planned change initiatives. Organizational development and transformation focuses on how human capital is utilized in organizations to implement successful positive change. The topics learned in this course are the dynamics of an organization and its environment, the style of internal and external OD consultants, organizational culture and processes, diagnosing an organization or its subunits to determine root, causes and change opportunities, selecting and tailoring OD intervention strategies to address root causes and create positive change outcomes, and addressing resistance to change.