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Total Organizational Development Article...
The
Ultimate Challenge for Top HR Managers Today
Dr.
Oladele Akin-Ogundeji
President, OD Synergy Ltd (http://www.odsynergy.com)
Summary:
HR
managers that concentrate on developing and marshalling total
organizational poise and effective organizational synergy
for sustainable high performance are positioning their businesses
for long-term corporate growth, success and survival! Total
organizational poise is the heart and bedrock of high-performance
organizational systems. Fostering total organizational poise
in your business is an enduring challenge but worthwhile overall.
Doing this requires a different orientation in organizational
development. It means total organizational development for
effective organizational synergy and sustainable high performance.
Developing total organizational poise and synergy is the
ultimate HR challenge for long-run corporate success and growth!
It is to imaginatively foster the synergy of excellence of
people's actualizing attributes and excellence in the facets
and interfaces of organizational systems and subsystems for
sustainable high performance.
A
Little Exercise Here!
When last did you undertake an organization development project
or an organization intervention program? Let's consider two
scenarios...
If you undertook an organization development project at least
over 12 months ago, Was the initial organization development
program conceived around certain specific burning issues?
What did you achieve six months after the conclusion of the
program? How much of that did you get one year after? What
are the challenges and issues seen as likely to result in,
or determine the course of, any subsequent organization development
project in, say, three years? What about in five years? How
much of these were factored into the design of the initial
organization development program? How did the organization
development project address and position the organizational
or business systems and their interfaces-their quality, functional
interdependence, alignment, and synergy? Which explicit principles
of sustainable organization development drive the project?
If you recently undertook an organization development project,
say, less than 12 months ago consider these questions. What
burning issues did you start with? How much effort did you
put into getting commitment to drive the intervention program?
What did you consider as the overall outcomes of the program?
How much of them were you prepared for? What would you say
is the proportion of foreseen outcomes (say, good ones) to the
unforeseen outcomes (say, bad ones)?
How
much consensus did you get on the impact of the intervention
program considering the burning issues you started with? How
did the organization development project address and position
the organizational or systems and their interfaces-their quality,
functional interdependence, alignment, and synergy? Which explicit principles of sustainable organization development drive the project?
Implications
for Total Organization Development
Issues, and considerations, such as the foregoing inform the
model, quality and thrust of organization development. They
underpin total' organization development. Which translates
to fostering effective synergy of people's attributes and
excellence of integrating systems and facets-together with
their interfaces- for high performance. It means using insightful
technology and processes to foster effective synergy of organizational
systems and subsystems.
Total organizational development involves exploring and nurturing
the total poise
of all organizational systems and subsystems for ultimate
high performance. It helps businesses position the drivers
(e.g. attributes, attitudes, talents, and skills), vectors
(e.g. mission, vision, values, ground rules and processes)
and equilibrants (e.g. methods, technology and tools) operating
in organizational or business systems and their interfaces
for long-run high performance.
Total Organizational Poise Is Key!
Keen watchers of corporate history and practices will marvel that not many top HR managers are heeding lessons of
tokenism, resulting in limited corporate success. This for long arose from poor alignment and lack of effective
organizational synergy.
When top managers tend to allow their organizations to remain
in a state of partial poise- so long as they are attaining
an already defined level of profitability or productivity-
their businesses are not motivated to create a vision of long-term
corporate excellence. Far too often, and for too long, we
see an organization which tends to focus on certain systems
to the detriment of others forgetting the interdependent nature
of subsystems in an organization.
The ultimate challenge facing top HR managers in a pulsating business environment is how to achieve and maintain total
organizational poise for breakthrough performance. When there is total poise in your organization, your people and
integrating systems are positioned for high performance on a sustainable basis. The truth
is that the nature of today's competition is beyond technology,
but what drives technology, creativity and innovations: the
superior essence of the human mind and character. This is
where the competition will be-and is being-won or lost!
Top HR managers need to explore and address total organizational poise development if they really care about their
ultimate HR mandate. This mandate is simply, to foster effective organizational synergy, through total poise, to assure
the future of their organizations in business.
Dr. O.
Akin-Ogundeji
, is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds Ph.D. of the University
of London and leads OD Synergy, a team of
strategic human resources and organizational development consultants
in Africa. He also leads Better Poise (http://www.betterpoise.com), promoting
people's capacity to be on top of their world and attain sustainable
self-fulfilment.
The total
organization development brief, OD Synergy Digest (http://www.odsynergy.com/od-synergy-digest.html), gives you insight on developing total poise for sustainable
high performance in your organization.
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