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This is a book about organization development, the applied behavioral science discipline that seeks to improve organizations through planned systematic, long-rang efforts focused on the organization’s culture and its human and social processes. The means of OD are behavioral science and structural interventions into the ongoing organization. The goals of OD are to make the organization more effective, more viable, and better able to achieve both the goals of the organization as an entity and the goals of the individuals within the organization. The world is becoming increasingly complex and interdependent, with the consequence that organization managers and members need all the help they can get to keep work organizations productive as well as hospitable for human beings. Organization development is not a panacea for all the problems of organizations, but it is one strategy for intelligently facing the requirements of a changing world.
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