Course Outline

1. Organization Development
a. Concept
b. Values
c. Assumptions

2. Organizational Change
a. Concept of planned change
b. Internal and External Factors of Change
c. Skills of Change Agent
d. Resistance to Change

3. Models of Change
a. A Three Stage Model of the Change Process (Kurt Lewin and others)
b. Burke-Litwin Model of Organizational Change
c. Porras-Robertson Model of Organizational Change

4. Process of Organization Development
a. Understanding the organizational issues
b. Diagnosing the problems
c. Feedback on diagnostic information

5. Organizational Development Interventions
a. Team Interventions
b. Inter-group and third part interventions
c. Comprehensive OD Interventions
d. Structural Intervention

6. Key issues in Organization Development
a. Consultant-client Relationship
b. Power and Politics
c. Leadership

Suggested Reading
A.Thornhill et al., Managing Change, Prentice Hall.
Anderson, A.H. and Barker D., Effective Enterprise and Change Management, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Oxford.
Bernard Burns, Managing Change, Pitman Publishers.
Cummings G. Thomas & Christopher G. Worley, Organization Development and Change, Thomson Southwestern
French, W.E. and Bell, C.H., Organisation Development, Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi.
Khandwalla, P.N., Organisation Design for Excellence, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
Luthans, F., Organisational Behaviour, McGraw Hill, New York.
Peter Drucker, Managing in a Time of Great Change