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Future of Organizational Development
CHAPTER 18

• Md. Musharrof Hossain
• Head- HRM, icddr,b
• President - BSHRM

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Contextual trends and their effect on ODs Future

• ECONOMY
• More concerned with cultural diversity
• More concentrated wealth
• More concerned ecologically
• WORKFORCE
• Increasing diverse
• Increasingly educated
• Increasingly contingent 

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Contextual trends and their effect on ODs Future

• TECHNOLOGY
• More E-commerce
• Faster organizational process
• More productivity
• ORGANIZATIONS
• More networked
• More Knowledge, learning, and innovation based

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Contextual trends and their effect on ODs Future

• ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOMENT will be
• More embedded in the organization's operations
• More technologically enabled
• Shorter OD cycle times
• More interdisciplinary
• More diverse in client
• More cross cultural
• More concerned with organization

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Traditional

• Traditionalist argue that OD should be driven by
  long established values of human potential,
  equality, trust, and collaboration. It
  is proposed that OD should do what is right by
  assuring that organizations promote positive
  social change and corporate citizenship.

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Pragmatic

• Related to increasing demands for  professionaliza
  tion of the field and an emphasis on relevance.
  Championed by change management practices at
  large consulting firms and some OD professional
  associations, pragmatists argue that OD
  practitioners should be certified like most other
  professionals. OD should require certification of 
  members, create a common body of knowledge,
  define minimum levels o f competencies, and
  institute other regulatory infrastructure.

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Scholarly

• Focuses on understanding, predicting an
  controlling change. Unlike traditionalist
  and pragmatist, scholars are concerned with
  creating valid knowledge, and with generalizing
  conclusions about how change occurs, how it is
  triggered, under what conditions it works well
  and so on

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Scholars proposed a research agenda w/c includes

• How multiple context and levels of analysis
  affect organizational change
• The inclusion of time, history, process and
  action in theories of change
• The link between change processes and
  organization performance
• The comparative analysis of international and
  cross-cultural OD interventions
• The study of receptivity, customization,
  sequencing, pace, and episodic versus continuous
  change processes
• The partnership between scholars and
  practitioners is studying organizational change

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Implication of ODs Future

• OD will have more conflicts in the Short term
• Traditionalist fear that OD is becoming too
  corporate and may unwittingly get together
  with powerful stakeholders to promote goals
  inconsistent with ODs social responsibility and
  humanistic values
• Pragmatist on the other hand worry that
  relying too heavily on traditional values will
  reinforce ODs touchy feely orientation.

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Implication of ODs Future

• OD will have more conflicts in the Short term
• The debate over values demonstrates how difficult
  it will be to gain agreement about standards,
  competencies, enforcement mechanisms, and
  oversight.

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Implication of ODs Future

• OD will become more integrated in the long term
• There is a considerable common ground among the
  diverse trends within the OD, and the emergence f
  a more integrated view of the field seems likely
  in the long term

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The Economy

• Increasing concern over social and ecological
  consequences
• Cultural diversity Governments face the
  difficult choice of  preserving their culture ant
  the risk of being left out of the global economy.
• Income distribution globalization of the
  economy is closely related to an increasing
  concentration of wealth in relatively few
  individuals, corporation and nations.
• Ecological sustainability there are
  increasingly clear warnings that the ecosystem no
  longer can be treated as a factor of  production
  and that success cannot be defined as the
  accumulation of wealth and material goods at the
  expense of the environment

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The Workforce

• The workforce is becoming more
• Diverse organizations, whether they
  operate primarily in their home country or
  abroad, will need to develop policies and
  operating styles that embrace the changing
  cultural, ethnic, gender and age diversity of the
  workforce.
• Educated the workforce is becoming more
  educated. A more educated workforce demands
  higher wages, more involvement in decision making
  and continued investment of knowledge and skills.

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The Workforce--------

• The workforce is becoming more
• Contingent the continued high rate
  of downsizings, re-engineering efforts, and
  mergers and acquisitions is forcing the workforce
  to become more contingent and less loyal.

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Technology

• Internet the backbone of global economy.
• E-commerce an economy that knows no boundaries.
  It involves buying and selling products and
  services over the internet. Two types of
  E-commerce relevant to ODs Future
• Business-to-consumer garners much attention and
  awareness because it is how the public
  participates in E-commerce.
• Business-to-business more complex

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Organization

• Organization - involves increasingly networked
  and knowledge based nature of organizations. The 
• interventions help organizations become more
  streamlined and flexible, more capable of
  improving themselves continuously in response to
  economic and other trends and more effective.
  Networks are highly adaptable and can disband
  and reform along different task or market lines
  as the circumstances demand.

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OD will be more embedded in the organizations
Operations

• this suggest that OD practices will become more
  embedded in the organizations normal operating
  routines. OD skills, knowledge, and competencies
  can and should become the daily work of managers
  and employees.

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OD process will be more technologically Enabled

• Information technology is pervasive and will have
  a significant affect on OD practice. First, it
  will enable OD to be synchronous and asynchronous
  (anytime, anywhere) as well as virtual and less
  face to face. Second, information technology will
  provide much more data about the organization to
  a greater number of  participants in a shorter
  period of time.

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OD Cycle Times will be Shorter

• new information technologies will expedite
  certain steps in the change process. Incoming
  years, new technologies such as groupware and
  video conferencing, will increasingly be used to
  bring more people together faster than ever
  before. There is areal potential to reduce
  dramatically the time required to perform many
  OD practices.

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OD will be more Interdisciplinary

• OD will continue to become more interdisciplinary
  and rely on different perspectives and approaches
  to develop and change organizations. It will
  balance human fulfillment and economic performance
  , provide a fuller recognition of the systemic
  and dynamic nature of organizations and develop
  improved techniques for managing large scale, and
  change w/n and across natural cultures.

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OD will be Applied to More Diverse Organizations

• In the future planned change will be applied to
  amore diverse client base. Types of organizations
  that are target of planned change
• Small entrepreneurial start-ups  important
  underserved market for OD.
• Governments increasingly applying OD
  interventions such as strategic
  planning, employee involvement, and performance
  management.

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Global Social Change Organizations--------

• the increasing concentration of wealth and
  globalization of the economy will create a
  plethora of opportunities for OD to assists
  developing countries, disadvantage citizens and
  ecology.

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OD will become More Cross-Cultural

• As organizations and the economy become more
  global, the recent growth of OD practice in
  international and cross-cultural situations will
  continue. The current trends of OD clearly point
  to the need for OD applications that work across
  cultures.

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OD will Focus more on Ecological Sustainability

• Limits to the worlds ecosystem, including its
  capacity to absorb population growth, function
  with a depleted ozone layer, and operate
  with polluted waters, provide serious challenges
  to the traditional business model.

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