COMM 251 Lecture Notes - Vision Statement, Situation Awareness, Capacity Building
Document Summary
Orgs are growing (or shrinking) and are struggling with effectiveness. Org needs to stay relevant to the needs of the field. Political context and funding patterns are always changing. Organizational development: is a system wide application of behavioral science knowledge to the planned development and reinforcement of organizational strategies, structures, and processes for improving an organization"s effectiveness . Process includes: the self assessment, the peer review and the environmental scan (swot analysis) leads to identifying the changes that need to take place and how the changes will be implemented (by whom, by when, how) Internal assessment: peer review process: an external team of peers take a look at the self assessment and provide their perspectives, feedback and input. After self-peer review use swot analysis to make changes: detailed internal assessment: (done on a broader level including most employees) aspirations, strategy, organizational skills, human resources,