Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development (OD) techniques. Bestselling author Donald L. Anderson provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today’s challenging environment defined by globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and evolving workforce expectations. The new Fifth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest research. New “Profiles in OD” highlight a variety of practitioners and researchers. New cases, examples, and a new chapter on organization design and culture interventions provide readers with the latest information on OD best practices.
The book also discusses organizational design, culture change, managing transformational change, and developing effective leadership.
THIS BOOK IS A PRIMER AND GUIDE FOR THOSE WHO ARE BEGINNING THEIR PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT.
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Organization Development Basics is a primer on the broad field of OD and offers just the right amount of information to create an understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner.
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.
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.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Practicing Organization Development contains information on current developments in the field and includes insightful contributions from leading OD practitioners and scholars.
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 ...
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 ...
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.