Why Organisational Development?
In order to explain to the reader the value of Organisational Development in business organisations today, we need to define Organisational Development practically. I will illustrate the meaning through focusing on each of the words, namely “organisations” and “development”. “Organisation” is a cluster reference, a holistic term defining everything that organisations consists of. Organisations consist out of stakeholders; it consists out of a market; it consists out of funds and assets; it consists out of resources, employees; it consists out of intangible things like knowledge; it consists out of technologies and systems. The second word, which is very important, is “development” and development means, by default improvement, movement and change. Organisational Development does not refer to only one component of organisations; it refers to all the components that need to be developed. The term Organisational Development is exceptionally important and often we do not understand and ack
