ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that one person is clearly labeled an "Organization Development (OD) practitioner," but the label of the other is not clear. So the interested watcher asks: "What's the other person doing, and how well?" And the response from OD practitioners has tended to be: "It's not my business, sister." The Organization Development Institute, still nurtured basically by Don Cole after certain years, provides growing hope that the needed things related to certification will get done. It has a membership far smaller than the Organization Development Network. But OD Institute has always required a review for those seeking membership and, far more important, its founder and guiding spirit has succeeded in aiding the development of a comprehensive code of ethics. The project developed collaborative relations with a covey of OD and human systems development associations, some of which had a history of differences.
