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Improve the functioning of individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole with this handbook to the theories, tools and techniques of organization development.
List of contents
Section - ONE: A practitioner's guide for Organization Development; Section - Section 1: OD history and theory overview; Section - 01: What is OD? Its brief history; Section - 02: Theories and practices of OD: a theory overview; Section - Section 2: OD cycle of work; Section - 03: Theories and practices of OD - the OD cycle and the entry and contracting phase; Section - 04: Theories and practices of OD - the diagnostic phase; Section - 05: Theories and practices of OD - the intervention phase; Section - 06: Theories and practices of OD - the evaluation phase; Section - Section 3: OD and change; Section - 07: Living at the edge of chaos and change; Section - 08: Back-room and front-room change matters; Section - 09: Can behavioural change be made easy?; Section - Section 4: The Organization Development practitioner; Section - 10: The Organization Development practitioner; Section - 11: Power and politics in Organization Development; Section - Section 5: Additional thoughts; Section - 12: What is an organization? What is organization health?; Section - 13: How to build up your presence and impact on organization life; Section - TWO: HR in relation to OD: theory and practice; Section - 14: HR in relation to OD; Section - 15: Organization Design; Section - 16: Transformation and culture change; Section - 17: Building organizational agility and resilience; Section - 18: A culture conducive to innovation and learning; Section - 19: Building the context for employee engagement; Section - 20: Developing effective leadership; Section - 21: Postscript - towards a better tomorrow; Section - 22: References and further reading; Section - 23: Index
About the author
Dr. Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge was the founder of Quality & Equality Ltd and the author of many organisational development articles. She spoke, wrote and delivered most of the OD training programmes in the UK and was voted one of the 25 most influential thinkers in HR by HR Magazine in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019.Dr Linda Holbeche is Co-Director of the Holbeche Partnership, Adjunct Professor at Imperial College London Business School, UK, and Visiting Professor at four other UK universities. She acts as consultant on OD, HR, Strategy and Leadership. She is Fellow of Roffey Park and the Institute of Employment Studies and was previously Director of Research and Policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Director of Leadership and Consultancy at the Work Foundation. In 2021 she was named as one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers by HR Magazine and is the co-author of Organization Development, also published by Kogan Page.
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Improve the functioning of individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole with this handbook to the theories, tools and techniques of organization development.
