What is Organisational Development from a Process Work Perspective?

by Heike Hamann

Manuscript, 2007

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Available

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MANUSCRIPT HAMANN, H.

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A Final Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master’s Degree in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR, 2007

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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Hamann_H_December_2007.pdf

ABSTRACT
This qualitative study explores the question of what organizational development is from a Process Work perspective. It does so by interviewing four Process Workers who identify as working with organisations, and based on their responses to a set of open ended questions, reports on findings in three areas: (1) ‘Ideas Behind pOD’ (process-oriented organisational development) describes how pOD is the application of Worldwork to organisations, with Worldwork providing the concepts and tools practitioners use; (2)‘Applications of pOD’ lists the wide range of organisations participants have worked with, and the types of problems they encounter; and (3) ‘pOD in Practice’ presents the phases that practitioners go through when working with organisations. Based on these findings a pOD Model is proposed, which suggests that pOD = Worldwork (background philosophy) pOD Practice (phases of working with an organisation).

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HAM005
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