Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change, 3rd Edition

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Pub. Date: 2009-09-01
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Essential resources for training and HR'professionals Practicing Organization Development A Guide for Leading Change William J. Rothwell Jacqueline M. Stavros Roland L. Sullivan Arielle Sullivan Editors Third edition Practicing Organization Development, Third Edition Building on its reputation as the most practical, comprehensive, useful, and clearly written handbook on organization development (OD), this new edition of Practicing Organization Development has been thoroughly revised updated to reflect the most recent developments in the field. With contributions from leading OD practitioners and scholars, the book includes a review of the core elements of OD that offers new information on a variety of topics such as leadership transformation and development, questions of inquiry, multi-level strategic change, global compact, positive states of organizing, and OD's role in creating a structure of belonging. Praise for the Third Edition of Practicing Organization Development "Nowadays a good roadmap is needed to navigate all the roads and this book does a great job of telling the reader of the variety of destinations that can be reached and how to reach them . . . .this book is as complete a compendium on what OD is and can be as is currently available." -Dr. Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management "Many of our organizations are in a crucible. Crucibles are utterly transformational experiences from which one emerges either hopelessly broken or powerfully emboldened to learn and lead. This book is a bright signal of what our change field has to assist you to become successful and make a difference in all you do." -Dr. Warren Bennis, professor and founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California William J. Rothwell is professor of human resource development of Learning and Performance Systems on the University Park campus of The Pennsylvania State University. He is author and editor of more than 60 books, including the bestselling Mastering the Instructional Design Process from Pfeiffer.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Foundations
Organization Development and Change
Change Process and Models
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Origins of OD
Building Convergence Between Human Resource Management and OD
Competencies of OD Practitioners
Mindful Leadership Development: Assessing Self for Leading Change
Appreciative Inquiry: OD in the Post-Modern Age
Od Process To Guide Change
Entry: Marketing and Positioning OD
Front-End Work: Effectively Engaging with the Client System
Launch: Assessment, Action Planning, and Implementation
Situational Evaluation
Closure: Freeing Up Energy to Move Forward
Levels And Types Of Change
Taking Organization Culture Seriously
Individual Development in OD: Human-Centric Interventions
Team Building and the Four Cs of Team Performance
Interventions in Large Systems
Whole System Change: What It Is and Why It Matters
SOAR: Linking Strategy and OD to Sustainable Performance
Special Issues In Od
Positive Organizational Change: What the Field of POS Offers to OD Practitioners
Systemic SustainabilitySM: Moving Sustainability from Ideas to Action
The Global OD Consultant
Inclusion: The How for Organizational Breakthrough
Organization Design
The OD Role in Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work
Human Systems Dynamics: Competencies for a New Organizational Practice
Seeing and Influencing Self-Organization
Values, Ethics, and Expanding the Practice of OD
Technologies to Support Interactive and Connective OD in a Virtual World
Transformational Learning Journeys: Seeing Is Believing
The Personhood of the OD Practitioner
The Organizational Fitness Process: A System-Wide Alignment
Context Blindness: What We Dont See Will Hurt Us
Transforming the HR-OD Audit by Using Whole Systems
Emergence: The Gestalt Approach to Change
Practicing Internal OD
Estimating OD Success Rates at the National Level
Four Risk Factors of the Unexamined Life: Be-Know-Do
Whole System Transformation: Becoming Dramatically Different
The Keys to Building a Transformative OD Practice: An Interview with Edie Seashore
The Future Of Organization Development
Dialogic OD: Turning Away from Diagnosis
Valuable Insights on OD from the Contributors
The Shifting Field of OD Practice
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Subject Index
Name Index
Pfeiffer Publications Guide
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