Organisational Development (OrgDev) Research Articles and Posts

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Organisational Development (also known as OD or OrgDev) is a structured, systematic and scientific approach to improving organisational effectiveness through research and testing. The primary intention of Organisational Development is to align the:

Strategy,
Structure,
Systems,
Processes, and
People

with the aims and desired outcomes of the organisation.

Organisational Development incorporates areas of Organisational Psychology, Change Management and Human Resource Management.

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How to manage people with a boring job – 4 key strategies

How to manage people with a boring job How many times have you heard someone say “I hate my job”? When you look at it this is often down to the fact that they have one of the increasing numbers of boring jobs. In this article, which follows on from my last post How to manage […]

#boring job

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How to manage people who do boring repetitive jobs

Managing people who have a boring job There has been a lot of previous research into how boredom impacts productivity in a wide range of settings. Virtually all the studies found, as you would probably expect, that when someone is bored they tend to make more mistakes and become increasingly inattentive to their work. As […]

#boring job #Management Research

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Organisational culture change through HR? Really??

HR create drag v culture change through HR Sometimes, in fact frequently, when I look at organisations about to embark on change or who are agile and under constant change and flow a number of functions stand out as potential drag to the change. One of these is the HR function. Hr can be seen from the […]

##HR #culture change #Organisational change #Organisational culture

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The counter-intuitive side of evidence-based practice

The counter-intuitive side of evidence-based decision making

What is evidence-based decision-making? It may not be what you think? The counter-intuitive side of evidence-based practice. Opinion-based decisions When people make decisions about things on a daily basis, for example, what eat or what to wear, they usually do so based on their own opinions, likes, dislikes, personal taste, habits and a range of other […]

#evidence based #evidence-based practice

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Why you really need to align your learning and knowledge management

A new research study shows why you have to get learning and knowledge management aligned in your organisation. Learning and unlearning Collective knowledge and the ability to learn and unlearn in an organisation are critical assets in improving organisational performance, increasing profitability, and ultimately creating and maintaining a competitive advantage. However, uncertainty over how exactly […]

#knowledge management #learning #learning and development research

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How people decide what kind of leaders we want

How we choose leaders. Research just published looking at how we decide whether to approve of a leader or not has come up with some interesting results. Leadership endorsement The study Social Identity Theory How we decide what leader we want What this means Reference Get the full research briefing – free Leadership endorsement How […]

#Leadership #Social Identity Theory

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Is there a link between emotional intelligence and creativity?

Is there a link between emotional intelligence and creativity? Emotional intelligence and creativity: Is there a link? A new study published in the journal Business Perspectives and Research looked at whether there is a link between employees’ creativity at work and their general level of emotional intelligence. The Study The 4 Dimensions of […]

#creativity #emotional intelligence

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How to make shared leadership work: The 4 conditions needed – new research

Shared leadership is increasingly being used in more and more sectors. Broadly speaking, shared leadership is where the team is jointly responsible for a task and no one person is responsible for the successes or failures of the team. In other words, it is where leadership is broadly distributed, such that people within a team […]

#Leadership #Leadership Development #Leadership Research #shared leadership

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How to get Research for Evidence Based Practice and Increase Your Credibility

Finding real research evidence for evidence-based practice – with ease For many businesses, organisations, coaches, consultants and HR, L&D and OD professionals The Oxford Review has become the trusted supplier of research for their evidence-based practice. What people get out of The Oxford Review As a direct result of the research briefings and evidence we […]

#evidence-based practice #The Oxford Review

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5 ways to deal with conflict

How to deal with conflict in organisations. This post is the follow on from Conflict Management Protocols In Management which reports on a new study sent to our subscribers earlier this year. In this post (part 2) I look at new research that shows the five ways people deal with conflict in organisations. 5 Ways […]

#conflict #conflict management

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