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What is Organizational Development

Reviving Businesses With New Organizational Change Management Strategies
Organizational development is a systematic and planned process in which the principles of the behavioral sciences are used to increase individual and organizational effectiveness.
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Strategic Greening and Social Responsibility of Organizational Development
José G. Vargas-Hernández (University Center for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Mexico)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7452-2.ch006
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the characteristics of the strategic greening and social responsibility of organizational development. The main assumption of the analysis is based on the consideration that the strategic organizational development should take into consideration the greening of organizations and the corporate social responsibility. Using a holistic and humanistic approaches on individual and organizational development, the analysis focuses on individual freedom, lifetime education and training, consciousness on human values, and ethical concerns related to the implementation of the organizational greening and corporate social responsibility. Finally, it proposes a strategic organizational development model.
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Strategic Greening and Social Responsibility of Organizational Development
Organizational Development is a systematic and planned process in which the principles of the behavioral sciences are used to increase individual and organizational effectiveness.
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Socio-Intercultural Organizational Development
Organizational development is the progress experienced by organizations through processes that improve their internal management.
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Transformational Leadership and Authentic Leadership as Practical Implications of Positive Organizational Psychology
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Aligning Technology with Workforce and Organizational Development
The systematic and planned effort of an organization in increasing its effectiveness, performance and positive change.
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Unveiling the Synergy: Inclusive Coaching Practices in Leadership
Strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing an organization's efficiency, effectiveness, and overall health.
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Strategic HRM and Organizational Agility Enable Firms to Respond Rapidly and Flexibly to the Changing Environment
In this chapter, the term organizational development can consider as an arena for research, where it is dedicated to intensifying the organizational knowledge and organizational effectiveness through enhancing individual employees’ performance management.
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Leader Development in an Unpredictable World: Transferable Skills and Organizational Development
A field of research, theory, and practice dedicated to expanding the knowledge and effectiveness of people to accomplish more successful organizational change and performance.
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Leadership in FinTech: Authentic Leaders as Enablers of Innovation and Competitiveness in Financial Technology Firms
Organizational development is the analysis of organizational change and performance, resulting is outcomes reflecting success.
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Setting a Framework of Inclusive Support for Students With Disabilities
A well planned approach to managing and coordinating human resources, processes, and systems within an organization, to ensure efficiency and productivity.
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Global Project Management: Achieving Sustainability in Diverse Multinational Organizational Development Initiatives
Known under its acronym OD, is the study of organizational change and performance in different industries.
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Exploratory Investigation Into Globalization and Linkages Among ICTs and Usages Within SMEs Environments in Cambodia
It can be defined as an objective-based methodology used to initiate a change of systems in an entity.
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Civic Engagement and Strategic Leadership for Organizational Development: Community-Based Organizational Development in Tanzania, Africa
Organizational development is defined as a situation where organization grows effectively from lower to higher level. The examples of organizational development include effectiveness of increasing volume of products, manpower increases, market expansion, more investment from saving, use of technological inputs such as digital, automated tools, using industrial revolution techniques for further achievements. But more important is that human behavioral science and its components normally incorporated at optimal level.
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A Programming Language for Normative Multi-Agent Systems
a process through which the structure of a multiagent system organization improves its quality and strength. Organizational development is essentially a qualitative process, with possible quantitative effects on the organization structure.
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