Organizational Development

What is Organizational Development?

Organization development (OD) is a practice dedicated to expanding the knowledge and effectiveness of people, to accomplish more successful organizational change and performance. OD is a process of continuous diagnosis that consists of action planning, implementation and evaluation, with the goal of transferring knowledge and skills to organizations to improve their capacity for solving problems and managing future change. Key concepts of OD include organizational climate, culture, and strategies. Techniques typically embrace a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming thought and behaviors throughout an enterprise.

How Can Strategic Workforce Innovations Help?

Strategic Workforce Innovations will partner with your business to address Organizational Development needs by first conducting a thorough needs assessment and SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The analysis will cover core areas such as leadership and team building, employee engagement, and training and development, which will assess opportunities where SWI can establish and implement strategies for improvements within these areas. Data gathering techniques include everything from surveys and questionnaires, to interviews, focus groups, and tests, and is typically evaluated and interpreted using advanced statistical analysis techniques.

Structural change interventions will also be used to implement organizational alterations related to departmentalization, management hierarchy, work policies, reorganization of work teams, and total rewards incentives programs. Additional steps will include identifying and analyzing change impact, assessing organizational readiness, and supporting a change management strategy that mitigates risk and maximizes employee engagement.

Final steps will be to create actionable deliverables’ that support communication and training efforts, managing resistance to change, and ensuring employee readiness. With the help of strategic workforce innovations, developing strategies in several of these key areas can establish immediate and significant impact in overall productivity and profitability within any business.

Why Is It Important?

• Improve organizational effectiveness while adhering to the organization’s culture and values
• Maximize employees’potential and help them amplify their contributions in furtherance of the organization’s success
• Assess what is happening within an organization and then conduct an intervention to try and create positive change
• Align human behavior with the organization’s strategy, structures, processes, business objectives, and so on
• Help promote the organization’s values throughout the workplace