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Offering a comprehensive look at individual, team and organizational change, this fifth edition incorporates theory, research and consulting techniques for both traditional organization development practices and newly adapted strategies for change.
List of contents
Preface
Exercises and Activities
Ancillaries
Acknowledgements
1. What is Organization Development?
2. History of Organization Development
3. Core Values and Ethics of Organization Development
4. Foundations of Organizational Change
5. The Organization Development Practitioner and the OD Process
6. Entry and Contracting
7. Data Gathering
8. Diagnosis and Feedback
9. An Introduction to Interventions
10. Individual Interventions
11. Team Interventions
12. Whole Organization and Multiple Organization Interventions
13. Organization Culture and Design Interventions
14. Sustanining Change, Evaluating, and Ending an Engagement
15. Global Issues in Organization Development
16. The Future of Organization Development
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Author
About the author
Donald L. Anderson, Ph.D., University of Colorado, teaches organization development at the University of Denver and organization design at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a practicing organization development consultant and has consulted internally and externally with a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions. Dr. Anderson’s research interest is in discourse in organizational and institutional settings, and his studies of organizational discourse and change have been published in journals such as the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Gestion, and Journal of Business and Technical Communication. He is the author of the text Organization Design: Creating Strategic and Agile Organizations (SAGE, 2019) and editor of the text Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change (2nd ed., SAGE, 2017).
Summary
Offering a comprehensive look at individual, team and organizational change, this fifth edition incorporates theory, research and consulting techniques for both traditional organization development practices and newly adapted strategies for change.
