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Corporate and HR strategy: Organisation development

Includes organisation design, improving organisation effectiveness and institutionalising change

Looking in the mirror at organisational development

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What does OD do?

Organisational development has been around since the late 1940s, but even practitioners working in this field find it difficult to define precisely. Valerie Garrow and Sharon Varney hold a mirror up to the discipline

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News

30 June 2009
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Features and comment

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Careers

07 May 2009
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Your say

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Blogs

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