OD Fundamentals
This term refers to the process of improving organizational performance through the alignment of culture, structure, and processes.
What is Organization Development?
This theorist is known for his model of change, including the stages of unfreezing, changing, and refreezing.
Who is Kurt Lewin?
This survey tool is used to measure employee satisfaction and engagement within an organization.
What is an Employee Engagement Survey?
This stage of change management is focused on preparing the organization for change by creating awareness.
What is Unfreezing?
This recent trend involves using data analytics to measure and improve HR and organizational performance.
What is People Analytics?
The method used to identify the gaps between current and desired performance within an organization.
What is a Needs Assessment?
This approach focuses on fostering positive organizational change by focusing on strengths and opportunities rather than weaknesses.
What is Appreciative Inquiry?
This OD tool uses structured interviews to identify barriers to change within a company.
What is a Focus Group?
This framework outlines 8 steps for successfully leading change, including creating urgency and building coalitions.
What is Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model?
This practice focuses on developing employee capabilities by providing opportunities for learning and growth.
What is Employee Development?
This key OD tool involves gathering information from a variety of sources to diagnose organizational problems.
What is Data Collection?
A concept that refers to the idea of shared beliefs and values that guide behavior within an organization.
What is Organizational Culture?
This assessment tool helps to evaluate an organization’s readiness for change.
What is the Change Readiness Assessment?
This technique involves communicating with employees to reduce resistance during a period of organizational change.
What is Communication Planning?
A type of organizational intervention that uses technology to improve work processes and communication.
What is Digital Transformation?
A participative process in which employees are actively involved in solving organizational problems, improving job satisfaction, and increasing performance.
What is Action Research?
This theory emphasizes how employee motivation is affected by a combination of extrinsic and intrinsic factors.
What is Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory?
A technique where stakeholders from across the organization are brought together in workshops to ideate and design interventions aimed at improving organizational performance.
What is a Future Search Conference?
This type of resistance occurs when employees are uncertain about the impact of change on their job roles.
What is Fear of the Unknown?
This emerging trend in OD is about creating organizations that are agile and can adapt quickly to changes in the market.
What is Organizational Agility?
A core principle of OD that refers to ensuring all levels of an organization are aligned and working toward common goals.
What is Whole System?
This model identifies five key stages that groups go through to reach optimal team effectiveness, including forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.
What is Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development?
This method helps organizations understand the relationship between job roles and compensation to ensure fairness.
What is Job Evaluation?
The idea that employees who are involved early in the change process are more likely to commit to the change.
What is Employee Involvement?
This approach focuses on creating a more inclusive workplace by fostering diversity in leadership and decision-making.
What is Diversity and Inclusion?