 | XIMB Fellow Programme in Management (Doctoral Level) |
| FPM Scholars Gayatri <email> | Organisational Change & Development Guide: S. Peppin About Organisational Change & Development "Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes--it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm."--Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999). What was earlier popularly known as Organisation Development (OD) is currently christened as Organisational Change and Development (OCD), though such label is widely used in the academic institutions, primarily to focus on the changes the organisations are expected to embrace and their role as "drivers of change." The field of OCD emerged as an independent discipline in the late 1950s. Taking "insights from group dynamics and the theory and practice of planned change," it has grown as an applied behavioural science used effectively to solve the critical problems confronting the various facets and dynamics which are both internal and external to organisations today. OCD offers a wide range of areas for doctoral research. Some of the important ones are: organisation transformation, learning organisation and knowledge management, leading and managing change, institutionalising change, innovation management. Resources Books French, Wendell L., & Cecil H. (1996). Organisation development: Behavioural science interventions for organisation improvement (5th Edition). New Delhi, India: Prentice Hall of India. Cummings, Thomas G., & Worley, Christopher G. (2000). Organisation development and change (7th Edition). South-Western Educational Publishing. Senge, Peter M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of learning organization. New York: Doubleday. Sinha, Dharni P. (1986). T-Group, team building and organisation development. New Delhi, India: ISABS. Hatch, Mary J. (1997). Organisation theory. New York: OUP. Expected Profile Anyone with a postgraduate degree/diploma who believes in change and wants to be a driver of change can apply. Preference will be given to candidates with a degree/diploma in management or behavioural science discipline (such as psychology). |
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