OD Intervention Analysis

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The purpose of an Organisational Development (OD) intervention is to aid an organisation increase its competency. It is basically a set of sequenced and planned actions or events that someone does to an organisation or something that is going on. Through interventions, it is intentionally used to the interrupt or destroys the order of the existing state of affairs like political and social issues. In selecting a specific OD technique, the practitioner and client must consider the potential results of the technique, potential implementation of technique that includes the costs against benefit and the potential acceptance of the technique. To add on, there are three characteristics to effective OD intervention. They are the extent to which…show more content…
Both verbal and non-verbal cues and messages are necessary to establish the full meaning of a communication. The two types of context orientation are high context culture and low context culture. Since the American and Western Europe practitioners came out with the OD, there has been a argument on whether countries outside the United States of America is able to put the methods into practice with success as it has been seriously influenced by the values and assumptions of these Western industrialised cultures. In this day, instead of taking your OD practice into another organisation, it is essential to tailor the OD practices according to the target organisation’s culture instead. Or else, how would an Indian organisation make way into the United States then. A high context culture is one where what is said only conveys a limited portion of the meaning, which must also be interpreted in terms of how it is being said, and the body language of the speaker. Members of high-context cultures usually have close relationships that will last long and because of that, members by then would propably have known about what is expected out of them, the rules and regulations, and how to think and behave. Thus, rules and regulations clear and obvious which also means that it is not needed to be written and this creates trouble for those who do not understand the culture’s unwritten…show more content…
But, to make cultural change in an organisation for a more appropriate structure would be better. The practitioner should implement high distance culture if he thinks it is best for the organisation, vice versa. For an example, US is more to the low power distance culture, which makes the members have a more informal relationship that allows them to be comfortable with giving suggestions in the organisation, leading to high motivation in work and more initiative. However, if a practitioner decides to implement high power distance, the organisation will be more likely to fail because the Americans do not like to be bossed around. Implementing this will affect the relationship between members of the
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