Criticisms of OD Programs:

Organizational development has been criticized on several grounds. One of the criticisms concern its vagueness. It is claimed that OD involves such a wide variety of approaches that it is difficult to evaluate the success of OD programs and to single out the most useful techniques. Secondly, since OD places so much emphasis on participation, it can lead to lack of adequate discipline. Thirdly, OD involves so much catering to individual differences that it is difficult to set standard ways of measuring performance and to compare one manager with another. Thus the task of manager evaluation may become more difficult.