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Organization Development Donald L. Anderson

Organization Development By Donald L. Anderson

Organization Development by Donald L. Anderson

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This bestselling text provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today's challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies and evolving workforce expectations.

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Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change by Donald L. Anderson

This Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Today's practitioners need a solid foundation that is academically rigorous, but also relevant, practical, and grounded in organizational development values and ethics. This bestselling text provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today's challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies and evolving workforce expectations.

About Donald L. Anderson

Donald L. Anderson, PhD, University of Colorado, teaches organization development and organization design at the University of Denver. He is the author of the text Organization Development (4th ed., Sage Publications, 2017) and editor of Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change (2nd ed., Sage Publications, 2017). 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. Dr. Anderson is a member of the Academy of Management and serves on the editorial board of the journal Management Communication Quarterly as well as SAGE's Business and Management Advisory Board.

Table of Contents

Preface Exercises and Activities Ancillaries Acknowledgments 1. What Is Organization Development? Organization Development Defined Making the Case for Organization Development What Organization Development Looks Like What Organization Development Is Not Who This Book Is For Overview of the Book Analyzing Case Studies Summary 2. History of Organization Development Laboratory Training and T-Groups Action Research, Survey Feedback, and Sociotechnical Systems Management Practices Quality and Employee Involvement Organizational Culture Change Management, Strategic Change, and Reengineering Organizational Learning Organizational Effectiveness and Employee Engagement Summary 3. Core Values and Ethics of Organization Development Defining Values Why Are Values Important to the OD Practitioner? Core Values of Organization Development Changes to OD Values Over Time and the Values Debate Challenges to Holding Organization Development Values Statement of Organization Development Ethics Summary Appendix 4. Foundations of Organizational Change Levels and Characteristics of Organizational Change Models of Organizational Change: Systems Theory and Social Construction Approaches Organizations as Systems Organizations as Socially Constructed Summary 5. The Organization Development Practitioner and the OD Process The Consulting Relationship and Types of Consulting The Organization Development Consulting Model OD Practitioners: Who Are They and Where Do They Work? The Organization Development Consulting Profession The OD Consulting Process and Action Research A Dialogic Approach to OD Summary 6. Entry and Contracting Entry Contracting Summary 7. Data Gathering The Importance of Data Gathering Presenting Problems and Underlying Problems Data Gathering Process Data Gathering Methods Creating a Data Gathering Strategy and Proposing an Approach Ethical Issues With Data Gathering Summary 8. Diagnosis and Feedback Diagnosis: Discovery, Assessment, Analysis, and Interpretation Finding Patterns by Analyzing Data Interpreting Data Selecting and Prioritizing Themes Feedback Resistance Ethical Issues With Diagnosis and Giving Feedback Summary 9. An Introduction to Interventions Interventions Defined Why Interventions Fail Considerations in Selecting the Right Intervention Strategy Structuring and Planning Interventions for Success The Change Agent's Role in the Intervention Ethical Issues With Interventions Overview of Intervention Techniques Summary 10. Individual Interventions Individual Change and Reactions to Change Individual Instruments and Assessments Coaching Mentoring 360 Feedback Career Planning and Development Summary 11. Team Interventions Defining Teams What Makes a Successful Team? Special Types of Teams Team Development Team-Building Interventions Intergroup Interventions Summary 12. Whole Organization and Multiple Organization Interventions (Part 1) Characteristics of Contemporary Large-Scale Interventions Organizational Culture Assessment and Change Organization Design and Structure Directional Interventions Summary 13. Whole Organization and Multiple Organization Interventions (Part 2) Quality and Productivity Interventions Interventions in Mergers and Acquisitions Transorganization or Interorganization Development Dialogic OD Consultation and Interventions Summary 14. Sustaining Change, Evaluating, and Ending an Engagement Sustaining Change After the Intervention Evaluation Ending an Engagement: Separation and Exit Summary 15. Global Issues in Organization Development OD's Challenges in a Global Environment Dimensions of Global Cultural Difference OD Values, Interventions, and Culture Case Examples and Research Findings Advice for the Global OD Practitioner Summary 16. The Future of Organization Development Increasing Complexity of Change Changing Workforce Demographics Changing Nature of Work The Current State of OD: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities Conclusion: The Future of OD Summary References Author Index Subject Index About the Author

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CIN1506316573G
9781506316574
1506316573
Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change by Donald L. Anderson
Donald L. Anderson
Used - Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
2017-01-11
512
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