CAN MANAGEMENT SURVIVE OD?

Abstract

What ever happened to good managers? Is the bold, risk-taking, imaginative, intuitive, and most of all independent decision maker still alive? Or has he been drowned In a value system that reveres compliance, group norms, group mores, and group responsibility? Has OD in effect substituted group effort for individual achievement? Do organizational development strategies and approaches clash with the profile of the effective manager? What role do organizational development approaches have in relation to the forecasted coming shortage of managers? This paper reflects on the underlying assumptions of many OD efforts and how they relate to the realities of industrial order. Research findings concerning