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OD Practitioner Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Organization Development Network , also known as the OD Network , sees organizational development as a field central to creating effective and humanistically sound systems in the global busine...
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Note that the organization and listing of the topics in the Library are not meant to represent a complete and "official" list of standardized competencies needed by an OD practitioner.
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Margulies and Raia (1984) describe the OD practitioner as a "social architect" (p. 91). The role clearly has a political aspect, due in part to the sensitivity of the work, which is centered around the political structure of the organization.
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Many personal and professional struggles were revealed in this research, which are integral to the development of the self in the role of the OD practitioner. The article offers ways of conceptualizing and handling these struggles, and thereby the work of practicing OD.
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Although an emerging literature reports on the values, motives, competence, and activities of organization development (OD) practitioners, little is known about the explicit or implicit theories they bring to their client settings. ... Data reveal practitioner preferences for humanistic theory sets (e.g.,
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From the very first issue to the present, the OD Practitioner has been the premier publication of the organization development profession. Its articles defined organization development and envisioned its future. These articles are now considered classics.
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What Kind of OD Practitioner Are You? I recently had occasion to post to an OD discussion list a framework for categorizing four basic kinds of OD practitioners. The framework, a 2 x 2 matrix, arrays hard vs. soft OD against the locus of the practice, that is, internal or external.
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