To understand organizational development it is necessary to know their basic budgets, which are as follows. Concept of organization: organization is coordinating various activities of individual contributions in order to carry out transactions planned with the environment. (Lawrence and Lorsch) Concept of organizational culture: the only viable way of changing organizations is changing its culture, i.e. change the systems within which men work and live. Concept of organizational change: organizational change begins with the emergence of forces that create the need to change somewhere, or in some parts of the organization.
Continuous adaptation and change: the individual, the group, the Organization and the community are dynamic and vivid adaptation, adjustment and systems organization, as a basic condition to its survival in a changing environment. There are five basic objectives of change: strategic objectives: concerned in altering the relationship between the Organization as a whole and its environment. Technological objectives: related to the change in the technology of physical parts of the organization. Structural objectives: preoccupied with the alterations in the relations of subordination. Behavioral objectives: focusing on the change of human phenomena. Programs: they are intended to alter the structure or the aspects of technical implementation plans. The organization by environment interaction: Organization and atmosphere are in continuous and intimate interaction. The individual per organization interaction: entire organization is a social system, humans have skills for productivity, which can remain inactive if the environment in which it lives and works is restrictive and hostile, and prevents the growth and expansion of its potentialities.
Individual and organizational goals: organizational development assumes that it is possible to achieve the goals of individuals are integrated with the objectives of the Organization, where the work is stimulated and carries possibilities of personal development. The objectives of change: can be classified two types of objectives of change, according to the focus of their efforts. Structural objectives.