This document discusses different types of organization development (OD) interventions. It defines OD interventions as structured activities engaged in by organizational units to enact organizational change. The document then classifies interventions based on their objectives and targets, and outlines the major families of interventions including diagnostic activities, team-building, intergroup activities, survey feedback, education and training, techno-structural changes, process consulting, and grid organization development. It provides details on the goals and approaches for each type of intervention.

1. PRESENTED BY,
HIMABINDU & JESSY…

2. INTRODUCTION:
 OD interventions are sets of structured
activities.
 Selected organizational units engage in a task
or sequence of tasks.
 Interventions constitute the action thrust of
organization development.

3. OD Interventions:
 OD interventions has four sets of attributes to the
organization setting;
1. A set of values
2. A set of assumptions
3. A set of goals
4. A set of structured activities.

4. Classification of OD Interventions:
 Interventions are just one component of the OD
formula.
 OD Interventions are classified on the basis of;
1. The objectives of interventions
2. The targets of the interventions.

5. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Diagnostic activities:
1. Fact finding activities designed to ascertain the state
of the system.
2. Data collection methods are interviews, questionarie
surveys meetings and examining organizational
records.

6. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Team-building activities:
1. Activities designed to enhance the effective operation of
system teams.
2. Different kinds of teams are formal work teams,
temporary task force teams newly constituted teams and
cross functional teams.

7. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Inter group teams:
1. Activities designed to improve the effectiveness of
independent groups.
2. They focus on joint activities and output is considered as
a single system.
3. When more than two groups are involved , the activities
are called organizational mirroring.

8. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Survey feed back activities:
1. Activities that rely on questionnaire surveys to
generate information.
2. Groups analyze the data regarding their performance
and design action plans to correct problems.

9. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Education and training activities:
1. Activities designed to improve individual skills, abilities
and knowledge.
2. The activities may be directed toward technical skills
required for performing tasks.
3. The activities may be directed toward leadership issues,
responsibilities and functions of group members.

10. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Techno structural and structural activities:
1. Activities designed to improve the effectiveness of
organizational structures and job designs.
2. The activities may take form of;
--- experimenting with new organization structures and
evaluating their effectiveness
--- devising new ways to bring technical resources to bear on
problems.

11. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Process consultant activities:
1. Activities that help the client to perceive understand and act
up on process events.
2. These activities perhaps more accurately describe an
approach.
3. Primary emphasis is on process such as communications,
leader and member roles in groups and intergroup co-
operation and competition.

12. Major families of OD Interventions:
 Grid organization development activities:
1. Activities developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton,
constitute a six phase change model involving the total
organization.
2. Internal resources are developed to conduct most of the
programs which may take 3 to 5 years.

13. Major families of OD Interventions:
1. SIX PHASE:
 Upgrading individual managers
 Skills and leadership abilities
 Moves to team improvement activities
 Intergroup relations activities
 Planning for improvement
 Developing implementation tactics
 Evaluation phase