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Organisation Development and Sense-Making Approaches

3 important questions on Organisation Development and Sense-Making Approaches

Appreciate more clearly the organisational change approaches underpinning the coach and interpreter images of managing change.

Nurturer and Caretaker have their foundations in organisation theory because they receive rather than initiate change.
The other four have stronger foundations in the organisational change field. They have an active role in initiation, support, and outcomes of organisational change.

Coach is related to Organisational Development (OD) including:
Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
Change as viewed from the perspective of positive organisational scholarship (POS)
Dialogic OD.
The coach link between these approaches involves encouraging a willingness to change and the development of change capabilities in people, rather than seeking to bring about change by top-down edict.

Interpreter is related to Sensemaking

Understanding the organisation development (OD) approach to change.

OD builds on a core set of values, values that should benefit not just organisations but the people who staff them. These values include:

Inclusion;
Open communication;
Collaboration;
Empowerment;
Incremental change.

Understand the sense-making approach to change.

The interpreter image points out to change agents the need to have a realistic view of what can be achieved in undergoing organisational change. Focus more on 'what is going one here'. Focus on making sense and finding new ways to do things.

The question on the page originate from the summary of the following study material:

Managing Organizational Change A Multiple Perspectives Approach | 9781259255113 | Ian Palmer, et al

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