Session Summary

Session Number:192
Session ID:S58
Session Title:Organization Development: Past, Present, and Future
Short Title:OD: Past, Present,Future
Session Type:Showcase Symposium
Hotel:Hyatt West
Floor:LL1
Room:Water Tower
Time:Tuesday, August 10, 1999 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Sponsors

ODC  (Rami Shani)ashani@calpoly.edu (805) 756-1756 
MED  (James Stoner)Stoner@mary.fordham.edu (212) 765-5573 

General People

Chair Schein, Edgar H. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scheine@mit.edu 617-253-3636 
Presenter Beckhard, Richard  Richard Beckhard Associates dickbeckhard@tuna.net 212-666-2222 
Presenter Nadler, David A.  Delta Consulting Group Inc. dnadler@deltacg.com 212--403-7528 
Presenter Worley, Christopher G. Pepperdine U. cworley@pepperdine.edu 310-568-2313 
Presenter Cooperrider, David L. Case Western Reserve U. coopdlc@prodigy.com (216)-368-2121 

Submissions

Abstract

This symposium explores where the field of organization development has been, where it is at present, and what its future is likely to be. In a world of rapid change, organization development takes on special significance because it has been the creator and absorber of many other trends in management education and development and has been the key interface with organizational level change theories. Will the field become over specialized or will it continue to be the catalyst for seminal change theories in the future? We will examine this question by bringing together founders, current practitioners, and curriculum creators of the future in a provocative dialogue on the status of OD. Each participant will have 10 to 15 minutes to make a provocative opening statement and then opportunities to respond, challenge, enlarge, and in other ways dig deeper into the issues of where OD is going and what role it will play in future change theories and practices. Each participant will have his opening statement. Beckhard will focus on the historical roots of OD and the present, Nadler will focus on OD in the consulting world present and future, Worley will focus on building a curriculum for future OD practitioners. Cooperrider will focus on integrating OD with Appreciative Inquiry and Schein will focus on OD in relation to future emphases on culture and organizational learning.