Approach
We look at organizations as four arenas. All these four arenas are alive at all times. Our central credo is to foster the quality of each of these arenas and to upgrade the levels of synergy that integrates the four arenas. The higher the synergy between the four the greater the levels of achievement and wellness. Individual centered developmental exercises fail to address the dynamics that emerge when people work together. Management approaches focus on structure strategy system and technology, rarely addressing people issues. We work with both simultaneously.
Dream Fulfilment
Work is the single most potent window for enhancing one’s own self worth, social prestige and of course status rank and wealth. Organizations become arenas where all members are engaged not only with the business of the organization but also with their own individual agenda of dream fulfillment. OD in the first stage of application facilitates the resolution of the business to this collective agenda. In its subsequent stages it helps the client develop mechanisms to assist the process on a self sustaining basis.
The Organisation as a Home
Members in organizations spend 70% to 90% of their waking hours at the workplace. In a manner of speaking the office is a second home.
The Idea Market
Organizations behave as idea markets. Employees at all levels have ideas for improvements, new vision, new products and processes. The inevitable forces of structures however make a large bulk of these ideas, especially if new, inaccessible to the Task arena. OD creates fora and disciplined processes for these ideas to surface and become available to the mainstream. Institution Building goes on to design practices to sustain the flow.
Task, Strategy & Execution Arena
Organizations develop characteristic and specific processes for setting tasks and targets. Issues of power, discipline, leadership and related rational requirements of the organization’s working are displayed in this arena. Crucial to the organization performance this is the first face of the organization. It brings to the surface how rational and structured (or otherwise) the organization is in its basic character. This is the arena where all problems of performance and working are tabled, processed (or denied) and expected to be resolved. The socio psychological characteristic of the organization develops set patterns of responding to challenges.