What is Organizational Development? Organizational Development has something to do with the process of making an organization work effectively and efficiently amidst constant changes in the organizational environment, being planned and implemented for the benefit of the organization together with its owners and employees. The improvement affects not just the employees but the whole organization as a group because Organizational Development varies a wide range of changes in the entire organization that they must undergo at various points in their development.That’s why studies on organizational change and development have become widespread in business world.
“Teach and institute leadership. Drive out fear; create trust and a climate for innovation. Eliminate numerical quotas and MBO’s. Instead, learn the capabilities of processes, and improve them. Take action to accomplish transformation! " -W. Edward Deming “Most problems of management are systematic and to settle it based on management responsibilities on how to improve their system in the organization for the employees to work effectively” is one of W.
Edwards Deming contribution that is still useful in today’s management.According to the Juran Institute, "millions of managers continue to rely on [the rule] to help separate the 'vital few' from the 'useful many' in their activities. " "Deming was a philosopher who desired to provide a new way to view the world," Phil Landesberg wrote for the Journal for Quality and Participation. "Juran was a practitioner who desired to teach people better management practices," including market research, product design, product development, production, inspection and sales (cited in Claudia Luther, Special Times, March 4, 2008) "Quality assurance is everyone’s job.
Improvements in quality lead to improvements throughout the organization. Above all, quality must be understood as a management style, and an infrastructure has to exist that supports both the work quality of the individual and teamwork between departments. Even today, these conditions don’t exist at all companies. Often, there are too many isolated quality initiatives" (cited in Managing for Quality; an Interview with Armand V.
Feigenbaum) W. Edwards Deming as the guru made the highly contribution in Japan with his innovations on high quality products equals results of work efforts over total costs that shows the ratio on quality.Among of the gurus is Joseph Juran who made a contribution on business and manufacturing process that still live in today’s generation and is known for 80-20, which states that 80% of effects comes from 20% of causes that eventually fall into lines of cause and effects. While Armand C. Feigenbaum contributes to the study of improving quality in organizations that helped reshape the way organizations carry the quality of management that made him known as “Father of Quality Revolution”.
These contributors have made understanding management and dealing with it has been easy and inspiring because of the things they taught that still lived on.
