Strategy and Organisational Development
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Organisational Development (OD) is a term that has somewhat fallen out of favour with current thinking in management. There are several reasons for this. The first is that as often practised, OD came to be seen as synonymous with a certain orientation towards people and feelings that left little room for discussion of "hard " business concerns. In other words, some OD practitioners focused on the individual and their concerns and assumed that this would automatically lead to changes in the organisation.
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