Organization Development - International Student Edition

The Process of Leading Organizational Change
Fifth Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5443-7223-5
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 948 g

Exploring every stage of the organization development process, in his new edition Donald L. Anderson includes new strategies for change such as appreciative inquiry, world café, and open space. Emphasizing organization development ethics and values in each chapter, the text provides real-world applications and equips students with the tools necessary to thrive in today’s challenging business environment. The new edition features:

- Expanded coverage of whole organization and multiple-organization interventions, now explored in two chapters, examine large-scale interventions such as culture assessment and change, organization design and structure, and mergers and acquisitions.
- New discussion questions, exercises, activities, and role-plays allow students to apply and practice OD concepts.
- New coverage of dialogic approaches to OD (Chapter 13) unpack new strategies like appreciative inquiry, world café, and open space.
- New examples of global organization development (Chapter 15) help students develop a global perspective of OD.
Updated and expanded Instructor Resources include a test bank, PowerPoint presentations, and video resources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Donald L.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson, Donald L.
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).