Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Today's practitioners seek a solid foundation that is academically rigorous, but also relevant, timely, practical, and grounded in OD values and ethics. In this bestselling text, author Donald L. Anderson provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today’s challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and evolving workforce expectations.
The book also discusses organizational design, culture change, managing transformational change, and developing effective leadership.
The book provides a good open-systems introduction to the topic of organization change, presenting the big concepts in a way that managers can use.
This is a perfect resource for professionals who are just starting out in the OD field or who want to brush-up on the basics.
My own work with Michael concentrated on what makes it so difficult for a system to learn from its mistakes (Michael & Mirvis, 1977). In a chapter in Failures in Organization Development and Change, we cited the gap between the ...
The mini-projects and web-based assignments, along with the review questions, further make the learning interactive and valuable for the students. The book is specifically intended for the postgraduate students of management.
Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate programs in organization development, management, human resource development, and industrial and organizational psychology, Organization Development provides readers with an overview of the ...
Dynamic Strategy-Making. Today's fast-paced environments require rapid strategic responses. Yet, conventional approaches for planning and executing strategy are highly formal, detailed, and time-consuming.
Fully updated to reflect major changes since the classic Second Edition, it explains how OD is now practiced, and how it is continuing to evolve.
In the following case study, Dr Allan H. Church, Senior Vice President of Global Talent Assessment & Development at PepsiCo, describes how PepsiCo develops digital leaders. Case Study OD in PepsiCo by Dr Allan Church In response to ...
It was 5 p.m., Friday afternoon, but the message from Sonya Byrd, his client in New York, said, “Call ASAP! Urgent—I need to speak to you at once.” Chris dialed the number as he stood by the window watching other people leaving the ...