Organisational Development An Interim Balance-Sheet- A Comment

Balance-Sheet A Comment Ishwar Dayal Nitish R De ("Organisational Development; An Interim Balance-Sheet", Review of Management, May 29, 1971) has rightly pointed out that the target of change in OD is the total organisation or a discrete segment of it rather than a chosen activity such as cost control, O and M, management develop- ment, etc. The development of an organisation is seen as a total effort; change in the segments does not always ensure change in the whole. The segments may have their own. specific features hut the whole is not a sum-total of the parts.