Digital evaluation of organizational development (“AM-BEST”), ST-PD-24-111

Project No S-ST-24-111

Project name: “Digital evaluation of organizational development (“AM-BEST”)”

Project duration: from 2 April 2024 to 31 March 2026

Internship supervisor:Prof. Dr. Birutė Mockevičienė

Trainee: dr. Lidija Kraujalienė

Summary: Lack of systematic organizational development (OD) methodologies and its limited application lead to a low productivity results, especially in Lithuania. A combination of “systemic development” methods could significantly help managers improve their management and leadership skills. Unfortunately, two created systematic development practices been have spread in North America (C. Argyris and D. Schön’s Harvard Business School practice “Action Science”) and in Scandinavia, develop quite different operational performance instruments. Therefore, there is a need for research on effective OD methods that can unify the measures, taking into account the management context that has developed. The purpose of Am-Best project – to develop a digital model for the evaluation of OD at enterprises through the use of artificial neural networks. Firstly, clusters of indicators will be identified. Quantitative estimation of indicators planned to carried out using AI system tools, which will more effectively replace previously widely used decision support systems, based on comparative analysis. The study will identify clusters of indicators and the most significant groups of indicators, based on which OD evaluation model will be created. The model will be validated for the Lithuanian context by conducting a survey of Lithuanian company managers, after which the model will be refined, thus preparing fundamental and specific models. Research methods: systematic literature review, Zipf distribution, survey, training and prediction of artificial recurrent neural network. Determination of clusters of digital numerical quantitative parameters in known OD methodologies in order to evaluate OD and increase the productivity of organizations. Digital evaluation requires modern AI methods. Impact – an innovative intersection for the classification of OD methods. A new practical OD evaluation instrument for the business company adapted to the content of Lithuania will be created. Practical value – the project will provide leaders with a digital tool to evaluate OD and contribute to building leadership capacity in any country.

The project is funded by the Lithuanian Research Council under the postdoctoral fellowship programme.