- The primary goal of OD is to help all organizations achieve what it is they set out to do - whether for-profit, not-for-profit, healthcare, community-based, or government.
- OD is about capacity-building – helping people and the systems they work within to adapt and change on their own in the future.
- OD is more than “organizational effectiveness” and “change management”. Its concern is the “triple bottom line”: people, productivity, and the planet.
- OD is driven by a humanistic values stance that favours participation and collaboration, a respect for cultural diversity, and an acute awareness of the social/global context of organizations today.
- OD is interdisciplinary: its theoretical concepts and models are grounded in behavioural science knowledge, drawing especially on sociology, psychology, anthropology and management.
- OD is constantly evolving; it combines emergent knowledge, techniques and technologies with its own.
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