How do ethics and role modeling play a part in the collaborative process?
When consultants practice OD within organizations, they have the opportunity to model to the rest of the organization the personal and interpersonal values and ethics by which the field of OD is guided (see “Ethics Statement for OD” in Rothwell, 1994, p. 565). This is a great responsibility that consultants haveñto act in the highest professional standard. When approaching any client engagement, a consultant might reflect on the following questions: Under what conditions will I walk away from an engagement? How are my actions serving or not serving the organization? Who gives me permission to be the best consultant I know how to be? Consultants who ignore these considerations may find themselves agreeing to untenable conditions or modeling behavior that is harmful to the client organization. This thought is supported by Eisen, Steele, and Cherbeneau in the book, Practicing Organization Development (Rothwell, 1994, p. 503), where they write, “…honest self-reflection and self-scrutiny
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