History of Organizational Development - Organizational Change and Development - Manu Melwin Joy

Kurt Lewin (1898–1947) is widely recognized as the founding father of OD, although he died before the concept became current in the mid-1950s.
From Lewin came the ideas of group dynamics and action research which underpin the basic OD process as well as providing its collaborative consultant/client ethos.

1. History of organizational development

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3. History of OD Kurt Lewin (1898–1947) is widely recognized as the founding father of OD, although he died before the concept became current in the mid-1950s. From Lewin came the ideas of group dynamics and action research which underpin the basic OD process as well as providing its collaborative consultant/client ethos.

4. History of OD Institutionally, Lewin founded the "Research Center for Group Dynamics" (RCGD) at MIT, which moved to Michigan after his death. RCGD colleagues were among those who founded the National Training Laboratories (NTL), from which the T-Groups and group-based OD emerged.

5. History of OD Douglas McGregor and Richard Beckhard while "consulting together at General Mills in the 1950s, the two coined the term organization development (OD) to describe an innovative bottoms-up change effort that fit no traditional consulting categories"

6. History of OD 1947 – National Training Laboratories Founded NTL in USA advances the research into applied behavioural sciences, develops understand of change agent role and experiential learning. 1950’s – Human Relations Movement Growth of social and developmental psychology.

7. History of OD 1951 – Socio-Technical System Thinking (STS) Tavistock Institute (UK) research shows that combining social factors with technological changes increases effectiveness, efficiency and moral.   1967 – Survey Research Methods Likert and Mann pioneer survey feedback to help organizational leaders understand the impact they have on the people and performance of the organization.

8. History of OD 1968 – Creation of the T Group Lewin (USA) and Tavistock Institute develops unstructured group laboratory training, and action learning sets.   1974 – OD as Planned approach to Change Friedlander and Brown research OD as a method of planned change effort   1980’s – General Systems Theory Neilsen and Schein promote OD as activities that influence the social processes within an organisation .   -

9. History of OD 1997 – Organizational Effectiveness Linking the application of OD in planned development interventions to the improvement of organizational effectiveness.   2000’s to Present – Complexity Theory OD continues to be informed by new insights and research in a number of disciplines including natural sciences, biology and physics as well as developments in the social and behavioural sciences.

10. 1- 10 Five Stems of OD Practice Current Practice Laboratory Training Action Research/Survey Feedback Participative Management Quality of Work Life Strategic Change 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000