Organisation Development: From Beliefs to Practice Christopher

J. Rees and Sudi Sharifi
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J. Rees: University of Manchester, UK
Sudi Sharifi: University of Salford, UK

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, 2002, vol. 5, issue Special Conference Issue, 109-122

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to explore the extent to which Organisation Development (OD) represents an attempt to determine the very nature of organisations, as opposed to offering non-directive management techniques that can be used to design heterogeneous organisations with heteroclite value systems. Thus, the paper seeks to question whether OD is a tool designed to enable managers to ‘read’ or understand their organisations before embarking on an uncertain odyssey or whether OD is intended to provide a prescribed ‘script’ for organisations.

Keywords: organisation development; philosophy; HR; agenda; globalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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