Organisation Diagnostic Profiler - ODP - Overview

Developed by Graphite HRM, ODP is targeted at organisations that continuously seek to improve their performance and profitability. As part of an organisational improvement process, employees are involved in identifying the threats and barriers to performance, and then work with managers across the organisation to remove these barriers. This process focuses on six issues critical to the people dimension of the business, namely goals, structure, relationships, climate, leadership and processes. The methodology diagnoses:

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The ODP tool provides insight to understand these issues in a business. In principle it is an employee survey but it is unique in its use of a generic theoretical model. Its wide use in the market facilitates an organisation to bench mark against other leading employers, including multinational corporations and government agencies.

 

Benefits Of ODP

• ODP is an integrated approach to measuring the factors that influence organisational outcomes. It goes beyond traditional attitude surveys by indicating where the organisation needs to change and what areas need improvement.
• In a single cost effective step, ODP delivers clear root cause analysis of the behaviour, structures, processes which are inhibiting high performance, and then works with the organisation's own knowledge bank to implement corrective action. It does not require additional interviews or focus groups to inform the nature of the survey instrument or to feed into the analysis.
• ODP focuses on the culture and climate created by the overall management style, rather than on the specific actions of individual managers. Therefore interventions can be targeted to achieve key results, and in many cases, a change in the focus of managers' behaviour has a strong impact.
• ODP integrates established organisational thinking and best practice. ODP has been developed against a backdrop of academic rigour, and meets stringent statistical and academic criteria. It is based on reliable technology, and balances the need for tailoring to organisation-specific concerns with a generic model of organisational life. This has been built into one fundamental model of organisational life inclusive of goals, structure, climate, relationships, leadership and processes.
• ODP facilitates organisations to be self-sustaining in their diagnosis of barriers and deciding on effective intervention strategies. Accredited training is provided on Organisation Development concepts, the philosophy of ODP, and the selection of interventions as part of licensing experts to use the product.
• An ODP result provides a benchmark of performance, and is designed for repeated use to gauge the performance improvement and the impact of interventions.