What are effective interventions?
The term “intervention” refers to a set of sequenced planned actions or events intended to help an organization increase its effectiveness. Interventions purposely disrupt the status quo; they are deliberate attempts to change an organization or subunit toward a different and more effective state. In OD, three major criteria define an effective intervention (1) the extent to which it fits the needs of the organization, (2) the degree to which it is based on causal knowledge of intended outcome, and (3) the extent to which it transfers change-management competence to organization members.