
Practicing Organization Development
A Guide for Leading Change
Wiley (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 29. October 2009
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Hardback
704 pages
978-0-470-40544-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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Series
Edition
3. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.9 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Thickness: 4.1 cm
Weight
1272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-40544-4 (9780470405444)
Schweitzer Classification
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William J. Rothwell | Jacqueline M. Stavros | Roland L. Sullivan
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William J. Rothwell | Roland L. Sullivan | Gary N. McLean
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A Guide for Consultants
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03/2005
2nd Edition
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Persons
Jacqueline M. Stavros is an associate professor for College of Management, Lawrence Technological University, where she teaches OD and change in graduate and doctorate programs. She is author and editor of more than 40 articles and books on Appreciative Inquiry, Sustainability, and Thin Book of SOAR: Building Strengths-Based Strategy.
Roland L. Sullivan is founder of Sullivan Transformation Agents for more than 40 years he has guided change processes around the world in virtually every major industry. He is known for Whole System Transformation.
Arielle Sullivan with a passion for change, studies Global Business at the University of Iowa.
Editor
The Pennsylvania State University
OD Corporation
Content
List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword.
Introduction.
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS.
1. Organization Development and Change (William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, and Roland L. Sullivan).
2. Change Process and Models (William J. Rothwell and Roland L. Sullivan).
3. On the Shoulders of Giants: The Origins of OD (John J. Scherer and Billie T. Alban).
4. Building Convergence Between Human Resource Management and OD(William J. Rothwell).
5. Competencies of OD Practitioners (Christopher G. Worley, William J. Rothwell, and Roland L. Sullivan).
6. Mindful Leadership Development: Assessing Self for Leading Change
Jacqueline M. Stavros and Jane Galloway Seiling
7. Appreciative Inquiry: OD in the Post-Modern Age (Jane Magruder Watkins and Jacqueline M. Stavros).
PART TWO: OD PROCESS TO GUIDE CHANGE.
8. Entry: Marketing and Positioning OD (Alan Weiss).
9. Front-End Work: Effectively Engaging with the Client System (David W. Jamieson).
10. Launch: Assessment, Action Planning, and Implementation (D.D. Warrick).
11. Situational Evaluation (Steven H. Cady, Julie Auger, and Marguerite Foxon).
12. Closure: Freeing Up Energy to Move Forward (Ann M. Van Eron and W. Warner Burke).
PART THREE: LEVELS and TYPES OF CHANGE.
13. Taking Organization Culture Seriously (Edgar Schein).
14. Individual Development in OD: Human-Centric Interventions (Udai Pareek, Lynnea Brinkerhoff, John J. Scherer, and Rick Flath).
15. Team Building and the Four Cs of Team Performance (W. Gibb Dyer and Jeffrey H. Dyer).
16. Interventions in Large Systems(Thomas G. Cummings and Ann E. Feyerherm).
17. Whole System Change: What It Is and Why It Matters (Emily Axelrod, Steven Cady, and Peggy Holman).
18. SOAR: Linking Strategy and OD to Sustainable Performance (Jacqueline M. Stavros and Daniel K. Saint).
PART FOUR: SPECIAL ISSUES IN OD.
19. Positive Organizational Change: What the Field of POS Offers to OD Practitioners (David S. Bright and Kim Cameron).
20. Systemic SustainabilitySM: Moving Sustainability from Ideas to Action (Mona A. Amodeo and C. Keith Cox).
21. The Global OD Consultant (Therese F. Yaeger, Peter F. Sorensen, Perla Rizalina M. Tayko, and Eric Gaynor-Butterfield).
22. Inclusion: The How for Organizational Breakthrough (Judith H. Katz and Fredrick A. Miller).
23. Organization Design (Amy Kates).
24. The OD Role in Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work (Mitchell Lee Marks and Philip H. Mirvis).
25. Human Systems Dynamics: Competencies for a New Organizational Practice (Glenda H. Eoyang).
26. Seeing and Influencing Self-Organization (Kristine Quade and Royce Holladay).
27. Values, Ethics, and Expanding the Practice of OD (William Gellermann and Terri Egan).
28. Technologies to Support Interactive and Connective OD in a Virtual World (Richard G. Bush and S. Alan McCord).
29. Transformational Learning Journeys: Seeing Is Believing (Philip H. Mirvis).
30. The Personhood of the OD Practitioner (Saul Eisen).
31. The Organizational Fitness Process: A System-Wide Alignment (Michael Beer).
32. Context Blindness: What We Don't See Will Hurt Us (Barry Oshry).
33. Transforming the HR-OD Audit by Using Whole Systems (T.V. Rao).
34. Emergence: The Gestalt Approach to Change (Herb Stevenson).
35. Practicing Internal OD (Alan Weiss).
36. Estimating OD Success Rates at the National Level (Robert T. Golembiewski).
37. Four Risk Factors of the Unexamined Life: Be-Know-Do (Peter Koestenbaum).
38. Whole System Transformation: Becoming Dramatically Different (Jennifer Todd, John Parker, and Arielle Sullivan).
39. The Keys to Building a Transformative OD Practice: An Interview with Edie Seashore (Gina Lavery and Tracey Wik).
PART FIVE: THE FUTURE OF Organization development.
40. Dialogic OD: Turning Away from Diagnosis (Gervase R. Bushe).
41. Valuable Insights on OD from the Contributors (D.D. Warrick).
42. The Shifting Field of OD Practice (Jane Magruder Watkins).
Guest Essay: Soular Power.
Angé Wayne.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
Subject Index.
Name Index.
Pfeiffer Publications Guide.