History
“…….building
organizational excellence is no longer a luxury
but an absolute necessity in today’s highly
competitive globalised economy”,
said Dr.C.Rangarajan, a renowned economist and
the former governor of Reserve Bank of India,
addressing a press conference in 2001.
The visionary that he was,
Dr B.L. Maheshwari realized this much earlier
that the ever changing challenges in management
would be organization development and organizational
behavior to meet the emerging needs perpetually.
Thus it became clear that an exclusive centre
for looking into organizational development and
behavior was necessary.
Thus, in 1980, under the Leadership
of Late Dr.B.L.Maheshwari, Centre for Organization
Development (COD) was set up with three core values:
strong client orientation, high standards of quality
and an Informal Growth & performance oriented
work culture, taking institutional grants from
Madura Coats, Bangalore, Bharat Bijlee, Mumbai;
Bank of Baroda and the MMTC.
The Centre has a multidisciplinary
team of Faculty Members and support staff. It
has a self-contained campus spread over 3 Acres.
It has conference facilities for holding workshops,
a specialized library, recreation facilities and
an executive hostel with 37 air-conditioned rooms.
The COD Campus was inaugurated by the President
of India, Shri R. Venkat Raman in the year 1990.
Governance
The Centre has a distinguished
Board of Governors, comprising senior administrators,
chief executives of public and private sector
companies and social scientists. The first
Chairman was Dr. V. Krishnamurthy, a doyen
among Indian leaders. His visionary leadership,
institution building capability and pursuit
of excellence, with concern for people,
led to transformation of two gigantic public
enterprises – BHEL and SAIL. His nurturing
of a new automobile company (Maruti) revolutionized
the automobile and engineering sectors in
India.
He had a long association
with COD as its Chairman from its inception
in 1980 to 1998, which helped the formative
years and set the tone for COD’s leadership
position in organization development.
Mr. Habil F Khorakiwala,
the Executive Chairman of Wockhardt, is
the present Chairman of the Board of Governors.
The strategic direction and overall governance
of the Centre is taken care of by the Board
of Governors, while the day to day affairs
are managed by the Director of the Centre.
Prof. Umeshwar Pandey is the present Director
of the Centre.
|
Activities
Established to contribute
for the development of organizations and improve
their effectiveness, COD is designed as a small,
specialized and high quality group of professionals
to concentrate on the study of organizations and
their development, including structure and strategies
of organizations, processes of planning and control,
motivation, culture, development and behavior
of people in organizations, intergroup relations,
criteria and evaluation of organizational performance,
interface of organization and its environment,
management of change etc. It has recognition as
a centre for doctoral research by the Osmania
University and as a scientific research institute
by the Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research (DSIR), Government of India.
In the last 30 years, the Centre
has conducted several executive education programs,
and has carried out Problem Solving, Consultancy
and Research Assignments, for numerous Public
and Private sector Organizations. A select list
of clients includes Bharat Aluminum Company Ltd,
Bharat Bijlee, Bharat Earth Movers Limited, Bharat
Electronics Limited, Bharat Heavy Electricals
Limited, Crompton Greaves Limited, Essar Group,
Export Import Bank of India, Forest Departments
of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, Government of Gujarat,
Hospet Steels Ltd, Hyderabad Industries Ltd, Invensys,
NMDC , Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), Satyam
Ventures Ltd, Steel Authority of India Limited
(SAIL), Sum total Systems India Ltd, Unicef Bangkok,
Government of Tamil Nadu, Tata Projects, TELCO,
Wockhardt Ltd, Etc.
COD’s
contribution to excellence
In pursuance of its core
values of high standards of quality and
personal excellence, Centre for Organizational
Development has constituted the V. Krishnamurthy
Award for Excellence, to honour individuals
who have set high standards of achievement
in pursuit of excellence in their respective
professions. Since 2001, the Award has honored
11 individuals who have set their mark in
…..read more (link to V.Krishnamurthy
Awards page)
|
As we move on…..
Though the main clientele of COD has been large
Manufacturing companies, it also recognizes the
need to nurture the booming Service sector, especially
the Software sector. COD has been promoting research
on management and development of such organizations
and to assist them in developing their capability
and improving their effectiveness through seminars,
conferences, provision of expert advice, guidance
and developing new and innovative training programs
that are tailor made to the specific needs of
the client. And the journey of Organization Development
continues……….
|
