Overview

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.

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Author:   Donald L. Anderson (University of Denver, USA)
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Edition:   6th Revised edition
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9781071876206

ISBN 10:   1071876201
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   02 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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. --Shonda Lawrence (3/3/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"""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."" -- Shonda Lawrence"

Author Information

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).  

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