Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

Estimating OD Success Rates at the National Level

Robert T. Golembiewski

 

 

 

 

 

This chapter seeks to distinguish two relatively distinct emphases in estimating success rates in OD applications, roughly corresponding to two time periods—from the earliest period through the 1980s, and then following the 1980s. The emphasis will be broadly territorial, emphasizing applications in Western democracies, Korea, and India. (See Table 36.1.)

Much energy has gone into differentiating organization development (OD) or organization development and change (ODC) from other approaches to planned change, but those differences in definition will not be of concern here. The focus here is on the efficacy of a rather elaborate technology ...