Intervention strategies are employed to improve organizational performances of certain establishments. The strategies may be used both in isolation and in complex with other techniques. The core intervention strategies that are usually applied by employers are structural, technological and behavioral strategies.
Structural intervention strategies focus on the elements that constitute specific organizations. According to Dr. Bernard Kennedy (2010), such interventions predetermine the changes in organizational layers (p. 5). In other words, structural interventions refer to such concepts as centralization, decentralization and restructure.
Modern world of innovative technologies preconditions a wide usage of technological intervention strategies in the sphere of organizational development. Such strategies help to accelerate the work processes and to enhance the general productiveness within organizations.
Some managers consider combining structural intervention strategies with technological ones while setting the goals for certain organizations. Armando Justo (2009, April 14) emphasizes that “these interventions are rooted in the fields of engineering, sociology, and psychology, combined with socio-technical systems, job analysis and design”. Thus, the author implies that the strategies have a multifaceted nature and are united on a basis of direct correlation between structure and technology.
Every working space is a congregation of human resources. Therefore, a successful employer should be an effective evaluator of his employees’ characters, since workers’ behaviors influence the quality of work. According to this view, the appliance of behavioral intervention strategies in diverse environments is a crucial part of work.
Prosperity of any acting organization depends upon the interrelation of several intervention strategies that are used by its management so that to direct the work. Thus, an integration of structural, technological and behavioral intervention strategies can be an effective combination that determines a successful functioning of any organizational structure.
References
Justo, A. (2009). Organizational development interventions: Managing systematic change in organizations [Blog post]. Web.
Kennedy, B. (2010). OD Intervention strategies.