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Organization Change and Development Pretty Bhalla, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 9: Comprehensive Intervention

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

9.1 Comprehensive OD Interventions
9.2 Beckhard’s Confrontation Meetings
9.3 Strategic Management Activities

9.4 Grid Organisation Development
9.4.1 Process of Grid Organisation Development
9.4.2 Evaluation of Grid Organisation Development
9.5 Trans-organizational Development
9.6 Summary

9.7 Keywords
9.8 Review Questions
9.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
 Describe the extent of OD interventions
 Explain strategic management activities
 Describe Grid OD, trans-organisational development

Introduction

Comprehensive OD interventions are very much alive and visible in contemporary OD practice.
Some comprehensive interventions involve the whole system. These comprehensive interventions
involve a collaborative effort between the client organisation(s) and the consultants(s) in both
diagnosis and interventions. However it must fit the realities being experienced by the client
system and must engage the cooperation and goodwill of client system members.

9.1 Comprehensive OD Interventions

The comprehensive OD intervention is in terms of the extent to which the total organisation is
involved. They are as follows:

“Getting the whole system in the room”
This concept has a long venerable history, including the art and science of conference planning
and running large meetings.

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