Communication within the organization: organizational development, team making and informal meetings

In this paper I hope to outline the reasons for the growth of the strategy known as organization development, describe some of the methods it uses and briefly review its current status. It is not intended to be an exploration in great depth—nor is it intended to be a sales pitch for consultancy work. Its intention is that readers shall be able to understand a little of the strategy and optimistically be able to see how they can take some of the methods outlined further in their own organizations. In order that we can get to grips with the subject, I shall only rarely acknowledge references and reduce the amount of jargon.