Organizational Development and Change Strategies
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Organizational Development and Change Strategies
This course is part of HR Management and Organizational Development Specialization
Instructor: EDUCBA
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What you'll learn
Analyze organizational systems and identify workplace performance challenges.
Evaluate change management strategies and organizational development interventions.
Apply OD techniques to improve teamwork, leadership, and organizational effectiveness.
Skills you'll gain
- Compensation Strategy
- Employee Engagement
- Organizational Development
- Business Transformation
- Leadership and Management
- Workforce Development
- Leadership Studies
- Team Management
- Compensation Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Drive Engagement
- Team Building
- Organizational Strategy
- Team Performance Management
- Change Management
- Quality Improvement
- Organizational Change
- Training and Development
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Management Training And Development
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May 2026
35 assignments
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There are 9 modules in this course
Learn how organizations diagnose challenges, manage change, and apply organizational development (OD) strategies to improve workplace performance, employee engagement, and long-term organizational effectiveness.
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Organizational Development, covering the full OD process from organizational diagnosis and intervention design to evaluation and continuous improvement. Learners begin by exploring the foundations of OD, planned change processes, and the role of OD practitioners in improving organizational systems, teams, and workplace performance. As the course progresses, learners examine organizational diagnosis techniques, data collection methods, feedback systems, and intervention planning frameworks used to address workplace challenges. The course also explores leadership roles in managing organizational change and sustaining successful transformation initiatives. In addition, learners study group and organizational interventions designed to improve collaboration, resolve intergroup conflict, and enhance organizational structures. Key topics include employee involvement, Total Quality Management (TQM), team effectiveness, performance management systems, goal setting, reward systems, talent development, leadership interventions, and workforce diversity initiatives. The course also examines strategic organizational transformation, learning organizations, knowledge management systems, and continuous change models that help organizations remain competitive in dynamic business environments. What makes this course unique is its comprehensive and practical approach to organizational development, combining diagnostic frameworks, intervention strategies, leadership concepts, and modern change management practices within one structured learning pathway. By the end of the course, learners will be able to analyze organizational challenges, recommend evidence-based OD solutions, and support sustainable organizational transformation.
This module introduces the fundamentals of Organization Development (OD), including its concepts, planned change processes, and the role of OD practitioners. Learners explore how organizations initiate OD relationships and use diagnostic models to analyze organizational systems, teams, and individuals to identify improvement opportunities.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videosβ’Total 89 minutes
- Introduction to Organization Developmentβ’10 minutes
- Foundations of Organization Developmentβ’8 minutes
- Planned Change Fundamentalsβ’6 minutes
- Planned Change Processβ’9 minutes
- Legal and Operational Integrationβ’7 minutes
- ENTERING A OD RELATIONSHIPβ’6 minutes
- Selecting a OD practioner and Developing a contractβ’9 minutes
- Diagnosing Organizationβ’6 minutes
- The need for diagnostic modelβ’13 minutes
- Diagnosing organising systemsβ’6 minutes
- Group level Diagnostic Modelβ’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Graded - Foundations of Organization Developmentβ’30 minutes
- Understanding Organization Developmentβ’10 minutes
- Building the OD Relationshipβ’10 minutes
- Understanding Diagnostic Modelsβ’10 minutes
This module focuses on diagnosing organizational problems and collecting meaningful data for OD interventions. Learners explore data collection techniques, sampling methods, feedback systems, and how diagnostic insights guide the design of effective organizational interventions.
What's included
10 videos4 assignments
10 videosβ’Total 86 minutes
- Individual level diagnostic modelβ’9 minutes
- Collecting and Analyzing informationβ’8 minutes
- Methods of data collectionβ’11 minutes
- Sampling & Techniques for analyzing the dataβ’11 minutes
- OD Feedback Fundamentalsβ’10 minutes
- Survey Feedback Methodsβ’6 minutes
- Effective Interventionsβ’6 minutes
- Designing Effective Interventionsβ’10 minutes
- Intervention Overviewβ’9 minutes
- Types of Interventionsβ’6 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Graded - Organizational Diagnosis and Data Analysisβ’30 minutes
- Diagnosing Individuals and Organizationsβ’10 minutes
- Data Analysis Techniquesβ’10 minutes
- Understanding OD Interventionsβ’10 minutes
This module examines leadership roles in managing organizational change and the importance of evaluating OD interventions. Learners explore evaluation methods, measurement systems, and strategies for sustaining and institutionalizing successful change initiatives.
What's included
10 videos4 assignments
10 videosβ’Total 79 minutes
- Leading Changeβ’9 minutes
- Managing Changeβ’7 minutes
- Evaluation Fundamentalsβ’6 minutes
- Evaluation Methodsβ’8 minutes
- Measurement and Feedbackβ’8 minutes
- Research Design Basicsβ’4 minutes
- Institutionalizing Changeβ’11 minutes
- Sustaining Change Frameworksβ’10 minutes
- Group Process Interventionsβ’10 minutes
- First type of Interventionβ’5 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Graded - Leading Change and Evaluating OD Programsβ’30 minutes
- Leading Organizational Changeβ’10 minutes
- Measuring OD Effectivenessβ’10 minutes
- Sustaining Changeβ’10 minutes
This module explores various OD interventions designed to improve group processes, resolve intergroup conflicts, and enhance organizational structures. Learners examine participative methods, open systems thinking, and strategies for restructuring organizations to improve performance.
What's included
10 videos4 assignments
10 videosβ’Total 79 minutes
- Intergroup Relations Interventionsβ’10 minutes
- Resolving Intergroup Conflictβ’8 minutes
- Large Group Interventionsβ’10 minutes
- Open Systems Methodsβ’7 minutes
- Open Space and Positive Methodsβ’9 minutes
- Organizational Restructuringβ’8 minutes
- Divisional and Matrix Structuresβ’7 minutes
- Process and Customer-Centric Structuresβ’9 minutes
- Downsizing Strategiesβ’8 minutes
- Employee Involvement Fundamentalsβ’4 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Graded - Interventions for Groups and Organizationsβ’30 minutes
- Intergroup and Conflict Interventionsβ’10 minutes
- Open Systems and Participative Methodsβ’10 minutes
- Organizational Structure Designβ’10 minutes
This module examines employee involvement strategies and quality improvement initiatives such as Total Quality Management (TQM). Learners explore high-involvement organizations, job design models, and approaches for enhancing employee motivation and job satisfaction.
What's included
10 videos4 assignments
10 videosβ’Total 71 minutes
- Employee Involvement and Productivityβ’11 minutes
- Total Quality Managementβ’5 minutes
- Implementing TQMβ’10 minutes
- High-Involvement Organizationsβ’6 minutes
- Work Design Fundamentalsβ’10 minutes
- Hackman and Oldham Job Designβ’7 minutes
- Job Enrichment Implementationβ’7 minutes
- Barriers to Job Enrichmentβ’3 minutes
- Sociotechnical Systems Approachβ’5 minutes
- Self-Managed Work Teamsβ’7 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 40 minutes
- Graded - Employee Involvement and Quality Improvementβ’10 minutes
- Employee Participationβ’10 minutes
- High Involvement Organizationsβ’10 minutes
- Job Enrichment and Work Designβ’10 minutes
This module focuses on designing effective teams and managing performance systems. Learners explore team functioning inputs, self-managed teams, performance management frameworks, goal-setting strategies, and performance appraisal methods.
What's included
10 videos4 assignments
10 videosβ’Total 67 minutes
- Team Functioning Inputsβ’7 minutes
- Advanced Team Functioning Inputsβ’7 minutes
- Designing Work for Technical and Personal Needsβ’9 minutes
- Performance Management Fundamentalsβ’4 minutes
- Performance Management Modelβ’3 minutes
- Goal Setting Techniquesβ’10 minutes
- Management by Objectivesβ’8 minutes
- Performance Appraisal Fundamentalsβ’8 minutes
- Performance Appraisal Methodsβ’5 minutes
- Reward Systems Fundamentalsβ’6 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Graded - Work Design and Team Effectivenessβ’30 minutes
- Designing Effective Teamsβ’10 minutes
- Performance Management Foundationsβ’10 minutes
- Managing Performanceβ’10 minutes
This module explores compensation systems, talent development strategies, and leadership interventions. Learners examine skill-based pay, gain sharing systems, career planning methods, leadership development, and workforce diversity initiatives.
What's included
10 videos4 assignments
10 videosβ’Total 78 minutes
- Reward Systems Designβ’6 minutes
- Skill Based Pay and Performance Based Payβ’8 minutes
- Gain sharing and Promotion systemβ’9 minutes
- Talent Developmentβ’8 minutes
- Career Planning and Developmental Interventionsβ’11 minutes
- Career Planning Methodsβ’9 minutes
- Career Planning Applicationsβ’10 minutes
- Management and Leadership Interventionsβ’8 minutes
- Workforce Diversity and Employee Wellnessβ’5 minutes
- Diversity Dimensions and Interventionsβ’5 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Graded - Reward Systems and Talent Developmentβ’30 minutes
- Compensation and Rewardsβ’10 minutes
- Talent Developmentβ’10 minutes
- Leadership Developmentβ’10 minutes
This module examines strategic and transformational change processes. Learners explore diversity initiatives, integrated strategic change models, organizational design principles, and transorganizational collaboration strategies.
What's included
10 videos4 assignments
10 videosβ’Total 79 minutes
- Diversity Interventions in Practiceβ’6 minutes
- Transformational Change Fundamentalsβ’11 minutes
- Transformational Change in Practiceβ’10 minutes
- Integrated Strategic Changeβ’7 minutes
- Strategic Change Implementationβ’7 minutes
- Organization Design in Practiceβ’8 minutes
- Organization Design Fundamentalsβ’8 minutes
- Transorganizational Changeβ’8 minutes
- Mergers and Acquisitions Strategyβ’6 minutes
- Mergers and Acquisitions Fundamentalsβ’7 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Graded - Strategic Organizational Changeβ’30 minutes
- Diversity and Transformational Changeβ’10 minutes
- Strategic Change Modelsβ’10 minutes
- Organizational Designβ’10 minutes
This module focuses on modern organizational transformation and adaptability. Learners explore continuous change, learning organizations, knowledge management systems, and built-to-change organizational models that help organizations remain competitive.
What's included
6 videos3 assignments
6 videosβ’Total 58 minutes
- Continuous Change Fundamentalsβ’7 minutes
- Continuous Change in Practiceβ’6 minutes
- Learning Organization Fundamentalsβ’11 minutes
- Learning Organization in Practiceβ’9 minutes
- Knowledge Management Interventionsβ’12 minutes
- Built-to-Change Organizationsβ’13 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 50 minutes
- Graded - Continuous and Future-Oriented Organizationsβ’30 minutes
- Organizational Integration and Continuous Changeβ’10 minutes
- Learning and Adaptive Organizationsβ’10 minutes
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