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H-1037 Budapest, Erdőalja út 145.
Phone: (+36 1) 250-2551, (+36 1) 240-4606; Fax: (+36 1) 240-4473
E-mail: concordia@concordia-od.hu
Website: www.concordia-od.hu

Organization Development

About Organizational Development

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Concordia specializes in organizational and management development.

Through the spirit and methods of people-centered organizational development we help our clients make their organization a more efficient, more affluent and more human place to work and be.

 


Our main profile is to contribute to the formulation of vision and strategy for market-leading companies in Hungary, to manage their organization development and culture change processes, and thereby to assist them in managing change and realising successful transitions. Over the last years we have been consultants to various companies, ranging in size from a few hundred employees to tens of thousands (e.g. Alcoa Köfém, Budapest Bank, Ford-Visteon, GE Lighting - Tungsram, Magyar Telekom Group, MakTel, MOL, Nokia, Rába Automotive Group, Sara Lee Coffee and Tea, Zwack Unicum etc.) in processes of organization development, management development and culture change.

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Culture Change

alt“MakTel used to be a technically oriented, socialist type old school company which we intended to reform into a customer-focused, market-driven corporation. This was realized in the form of a comprehensive change management program which did not stop at reforming our operations and structure but indispensably included a culture change. Concordia played an invaluable role in this process.
Our cooperation lasted two years and created the solid foundations of our future growth which we could reliably build upon. The programs were very favorably received throughout the company and everyone has been praising them ever since.”
Mr. Attila Szendrei
CEO, MakTel

These days the majority of resources – machines, materials or people – are available and affordable. However, organizations can become unique and outstanding through an atmosphere, a corporate culture which enables people to utilize their full potentials.

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Improving Cooperation

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Improving the Cooperation among Units of the Organization

During our work as consultants we often experience that individual organizational units function in isolation from each other and primarily focus on their own partial tasks. This means departments do not assist each others’ work as much as they could. There is insufficient cooperation and communication among corporate units which, if projected over the entire organization, results in sub-optimization and entropy.

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Empowerment and Self-Directing Teams

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This page contains quotes from the article EMPOWERMENT - THE WAY TO CREATE EFFICIENT ORGANIZATIONS WITH A HUMAN FACE by Imre Lövey

WHY EMPOWERMENT?

 Empowered organizations give their employees much more independence, decision making authority and responsibility than their traditional counterparts. These organizations rely on self-directed work teams empowered, within certain limits, to make decisions that managers reserve for themselves in traditional organizations.

At the same time, empowerment is neither a radically new nor a recent idea. It is firmly rooted in such historic concepts as the human relations school, participative management, delegation, teamwork, and autonomous workgroups. All of these concepts embody certain aspects and attributes of empowerment.

The advantages of empowerment

Empowered organizations have at least three significant advantages over their traditional counterparts:

 

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