Organization development (OD) as a concept is only slightly more than a decade old and has emerged largely through attempts to apply insights and values from laboratory training to the changing problems of total organizations. The key to their viability lies in an authentic focus on problems and concerns of the organization, and in their confrontation of issues and problems.
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Wendell L. French (1969) studied this question.
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