Organizational Development

A working paper that maps organisational development end to end, from reading the context to sustaining the change. It compares Kotter, the McKinsey 7S framework and the ECDPM approach, with case examples from real programmes.

Jessica Mackenzie and Rebecca Gordon

The opening unit of a university course on OD. It sets out the old and new definitions of the field, the goals of organisation development, and how it differs from plain organisational change.

Indira Gandhi National Open University

A compact article that sorts the main OD techniques into two families, process and structural. Survey feedback, team building, process consultation and quality of work life on one side, job and structure redesign on the other.

Fred C. Lunenburg

A working paper tracing organisational development from its mid twentieth century roots to the argument practitioners are still having about what the field is for. Useful if you want the history and the open questions in one read.

Valerie Garrow

A handbook chapter arguing that leadership development, management development and OD are the same job seen from three angles. It closes with a framework for choosing an approach and a provider.

Richard Bolden