Abstract
This study assesses the effects of positive approaches of Organization Development (OD) on teachers and staff members and illustrates the processes by which OD can take effect in schools. Using OD, I organized a two-day in-school training session for elementary and junior high school teachers and staff members at a private school. I practiced Appreciative Inquiry (AI), which was the most widely used positive approaches of OD technique. After the session, I assessed its effect over a period of one month by interviewing participants individually and performing qualitative data analysis. The findings of this paper are the following: (1) by developing a Foundation for Pursuing School Goals (FPSG), teachers and staff members became more aware of the school goals and undertook action to achieve them and (2) by developing a Foundation for Developing Communicative Relationships between Colleagues (FDCRC), they became more communicative, and as a result, more aware of the necessity of communicating with colleagues and better able to implement the ideas that arise from their discussions.
