OD+process

Any organizational development process starts with the identification of problems that can be solved within the organization. This process progresses through different stages and determines satisfactory progress made for additional involvement. The procedure is cyclic and terminates only when desired result is obtained. It can also be a series of trial and error and a discovery of the best practices that can be implemented in the organization. Here are the different stages or phases of the organizational development process: • Problem identification • Situational assessment • Action planning/ planning of the intervention • Implement plan/ implementing the intervention • Gather data/ collect data to evaluate the intervention • Determining the results • Feedback  Organizational development recognizes and tests the impact of problems on the growth of organization and changes the system if required. It begins with the leadership as a vision to progress and improve the organizational activities. It is not always recommended to execute development process when the organization in trouble, we can also execute a process to better the performance of the organization. First decide which parts of the organization require to be changed. Once choice is made, review the condition to understand the problem better. Reviews are of different types such as citation review, directorial review, focus review and surveying. Normally, assessments will be performed by the experts or members of the organization. Once assessment is understood, the next step is to plan for involvement or intervention. Intervention can include teaching, improvement and team interventions through training and brainstorming sessions. Focused group discussions could also be implemented for this purpose. Team intervention in turn includes structural and individual interventions. The next step in the organizational development process is to implement the planned interventions. In this phase, information is collected and goals are created. The data gathered is used to verify the efficiency of the involvement. Report back the data to the organization's decision makers. If the desired goals are met the organizational development process will continue but will take on a different focus until such time that the goals of the organization are met. Chances are, however, organizational goals change over time, so there is always a need for such a process to continue. Organizational development process assumes great importance in today's social organizations or non profit organizations. Since they move from survivability to the sustainability development is necessary. The OD process is commonly applied to the various phases of the organization such as defining the organizational purpose, evolving strengths, value creation, strategic intervention and partnership convergence. Social sector is the best known place to implement the organizational development process.

