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Practicing Organization Development (A guide for Consultants) - Part 12

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Practicing Organization Development (A guide for Consultants) - Part 12. Organization development (OD) is about planned change. As change has turned into the only constant, many managers and other people are pursuing change strategies with vigor. OD is a major strategy for leading and managing change at the individual, group, intergroup, organizational, interorganizational, and large systems levels. This book is about what it takes to be an effective change manager, change leader, and OD consultant | CHAPTER THREE d On the Shoulders of Giants The Origins of OD Billie T. Alban John J. Scherer1 In our work as OD practitioners whose shoulders are we standing on Whose conceptual DNA runs in our veins What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from More often than not we do our OD work inside a culture of practice whose principles are simply taken for granted things like involving people in planning and taking action group decision making action research feedback high-performance high-satisfaction team development leadership and management coaching the stages in the consulting process. These methods and principles have not always been around. Who figured them out and passed them on to us You may know personally some of the people on whose shoulders you are standing certainly you have read the works of earlier elders who have shaped your work but many of those who attempted to improve their social systems are lost in the mists of time. . . OD S ANCIENT ROOTS We will get to the more recent aspects of the origin of our field but first it is important to acknowledge that people have been attempting to create more effective organizations since the dawn of time. 81 82 PRACTICING ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT 2ND EDITION No doubt small groups of Neanderthal cave-dwellers discussed ways to kill the mastodon more effectively and without losing so many hunters. The early Egyptians had what could best be described as consulting engineers who made sure the many communities up and down the Nile practiced proper flood control so everyone would survive another year with an irrigated harvest. The biblical story of Moses and his father-in-law Jethro tells of what could be called the first recorded consultation for large-scale change. We know that kings and religious leaders across the centuries and around the world had advisors they would turn to when facing difficult decisions. There was also the court jester who played a major if undefined role as an executive .