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Organization Development
The Process of Leading Organizational Change
Sixth Edition
- Donald L. Anderson - University of Denver, USA
September 2023 | 520 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Sixth 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.
The new Sixth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest research. New cases, chapter learning objectives, examples, sections on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the impact of COVID-19 on the workplace provide readers with the latest information on OD best practices.
The new Sixth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest research. New cases, chapter learning objectives, examples, sections on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the impact of COVID-19 on the workplace provide readers with the latest information on OD best practices.
Chapter 1 • What Is Organization Development?
Chapter 2 • History of Organization Development
Chapter 3 • Core Values and Ethics of Organization Development
Chapter 4 • Foundations of Organizational Change
Chapter 5 • The Organization Development Practitioner and the OD Process
Chapter 6 • Entry and Contracting
Chapter 7 • Data Gathering
Chapter 8 • Diagnosis and Feedback
Chapter 9 • An Introduction to Interventions
Chapter 10 • Individual Interventions
Chapter 11 • Team Interventions
Chapter 12 • Whole Organization and Multiple Organization Interventions
Chapter 13 • Organization Culture and Design Interventions
Chapter 14 • Sustaining Change, Evaluating, and Ending an Engagement
Chapter 15 • Global Issues in Organization Development
Chapter 16 • The Future of Organization Development
Supplements
"A breath of fresh air. A well written, straightforward, easy to digest text that moves away from being focused only on the discipline of
business and included real life approaches to OD for social and behavioral disciplines."
Clark Atlanta University
It represents what we were looking for in a textbook on OD.
Technolgy & Workforce Learning, Pittsburg State University
August 9, 2024
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1. WHAT IS ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT?
Chapter 2. HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT
