• University of Houston

• HRD 4350

OD Readiness By J. William Pfeiffer and John E. Jones An intriguing parallel exists between the concept of organization development (OD) “readiness” and the developmental trait of “reading readiness.” Once an individual child is ready to read, it is somewhat immaterial which teaching method is used. Conversely, when a child is not ready to learn to read, all strategies are relatively unsuccessful in teaching that child how to read. In an analogous way, once an organizational system has the necessary prerequisites, change is likely to take place regardless of which methodology is applied. Conversely, the most sophisticated techniques employed by the most competent and experienced consultants and managers are doomed to failure when the organization itself is unready to undertake a project of planned change.