Organizational Development – Employee Support for Structural and Process Changes By Jens Möller

1.What is organizational development?

Functioning organizational structures and processes are among the critical success factors of every company. You, as someone with leadership responsibility, play a key role in shaping teams of group representatives or team leaders and assigning them to their designated supervisor. They develop processes to determine the work that is required, such as: But structures and processes alone are not enough to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization. This requires your employees to accept them as well. Ensuring employee acceptance is the crucial difference between organizational development and traditional organizational design. Only with organizational development will you get your employees involved in actively implementing and supporting organizational measures every day.

2.What is organizational development good for?

Organization is the backbone of your employees, and so to speak the backbone of your employees. When the structures and processes in your organization are working well, everyone knows where one responsibility ends and another begins. Everyone knows who he works with and how to support each other. Everyone knows who to coordinate with when and when. In this information age, with its increasing competitive and cost pressures and ever-changing demands, nothing is more stable than change. Both companies’ structures and work processes need to be constantly adapted to new circumstances. Integration of the company’s internal processes may require, for example, new working methods or procedures or a new team composition If you change something in your business, you influence people-either directly or indirectly. Here it is important that your employees adopt new structures and processes. Only in this case will they accept the new framework, rather than ignoring or hindering it. Only then will you reach the goals you want to achieve with your organizational actions. In short: your company adapted changes not by itself-it does not just need to be shaped and changed, but it has to be developed.

3.What does organizational development consist of?

Organizational development can be subdivided into topics of organizational structuring and process organization.