Organization Development

This essay is a reflective account of facilitating organizational change at ASTHA, a CSO working with the disabled. It highlights slow, co-created transformation, the power of listening, and embracing uncertainty to nurture trust, leadership growth, and collective action.

The ‘Ground Zero’ piece focuses on how organizations are rising to the challenges of creating an effective and inclusive internal culture by deploying plural and informal means.

In her article, Sujatha Rao discusses the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) – an assessment tool – that can help us figure out our value drivers and behavioral choices and how we can create paths for going forward as organizations.

This article highlights why strong internal systems matter for non-profits. It shows how organizational development and design (OD&D) processes support teamwork, reduce stress, and help people and organizations grow while pursuing meaningful social change.

The issue’s Ground Zero piece discusses what it means to implement community-centred people practices in CSOs, drawing upon the practical experiences of three organizations. Working on this issue of Samuhik Pahal helped us look at the connections between organizational culture and values, people practices, and community impact with new eyes.

In “Reflections on our efforts to build a wholesome organization,” Arjun Trivedi provides the philosophical underpinnings and some practical strategies of creating an organization whose practices, including people practices, are being attempted to be rooted in compassion.