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Organization Development
The Process of Leading Organizational Change
Fourth Edition
- Donald L. Anderson - University of Denver, USA
512 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Today's practitioners seek a solid foundation that is academically rigorous, but also relevant, timely, practical, and grounded in OD values and ethics. In this bestselling text, author Donald L. Anderson provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today’s challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and evolving workforce expectations.
Preface
Acknowledgments
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 (Part 1)
13. Whole Organization and Multiple Organization Interventions (Part 2)
14. Sustaining 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
Supplements
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Business Accounting Division, Mercy College-Dobbs Ferry
April 14, 2018
Organization Development Fourth Edition The Process of Leading Organizational Change was straight forward and concise. The chapters are not long and seemed to hold the attention of the students well.
Management Dept, California State Univ-Fresno
June 30, 2018