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    OD interventions are structured activities aimed at organizational improvement and individual development. Practitioners use a variety of interventions to help organizations address specific problems. Some common interventions include team building, surveys, education, and structural changes. Effective interventions are people-oriented, clearly goal-focused, and promote both experiential and conceptual learning in a supportive environment. Sequencing interventions to maximize diagnostic data, effectiveness, and relevance can help practitioners structure change efforts.

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    OVERVIEW OF OD

    INTERVENTIONS

    Presented By:

    Priyanka Dhanuka
    OD Interventions

    • OD Interventions are set of Structured activities in which

    organizational units engage in a task or sequence of task

    with the goals of organizational improvement and individual

    development.
    • Practitioners have created an array of interventions to help

    organization members address specific problems effectively.

    • OD Practitioner brings 4 set of attributes to the organisational setting:

    • Set of values

    • Set of assumptions about people

    • Organizations & interpersonal relationships

    • Set of goals for pratitioner & organization & its members

    • Set of structured activities that are the means for achieving the values,

    goals and assumptions.


    Aims of interventions include:

    • Developing self directed teams


    • High performance work systems
    • Self designing organizations
    • Large scale systems change model to help organizations adapt
    & survive
    • To improve Quality of work life (QWL)
    • Work redesign using sociotechnical systems theory (STS)
    • Strategic planning methods
    Classification of OD Interventions

    • Diagnostic activities

    • Team building activities

    • Intergroup activities

    • Survey feedback activities

    • Education & training activities

    • Technostructural or Structural activites

    • Process Consultation Activities


    • Grid Organization Development Activities

    • Third-party peacemaking activities

    • Coaching & Counseling activities

    • Life & Career planning activities

    • Planning & Goal-Setting activities

    • Strategic Management activites

    • Organizational Transformation
    Following points help practioners structure activities in “better”
    ways:

    • Preplanning the group composition

    • Structure the activity so that it is people oriented and

    oriented to the problems & opportunities generated by

    clients.

    • Goal should be clear

    • Ensurance of high profitabilty of success

    • Activity should contain both experience based learning &

    conceptual learning
    • Structure the climate

    • Create learning environment

    • Structure the activity so that individuals work as a team


    Michael Beer suggets the following guidelines to sequence
    intervention activities:
    1. Maximize diagnostic data
    2. Maximize effectiveness

    3. Maximize efficiency
    4. Maximize speed
    5. Maximize relevance

    6. Minimize psychological & organizational strain


    Robert Blake & Jane Mouton identified the following types of
    interventions:

    1. Discrepancy intervention

    2. Theory intervention

    3. Procedural Intervention

    4. Relationship intervention
    5.Experimentation intervention

    6. Dilemma Interventions

    7. Perspective Interventions

    8. Organization Stucture interventions

    9. Cultural Interventions
    Results from OD Interventions
    • Feedback

    • Awareness of changing Sociocultural Norms or Dysfunctional


    Current Norms

    • Increased Interaction & Communication

    • Confrontation
    • Education

    • Participation

    • Increased Accountability

    • Increased energy & optimism


    Thank you everyone!

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