Practicing Organization Development : A Guide for Leading Change

by Rothwell, William J.; Stavros, Jacqueline M.; Sullivan, Roland L.; Sullivan, Arielle

• ISBN13: 9780470405444
• ISBN10: 0470405449
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-19
• Publisher: Pfeiffer & Co

Summary

Completely revised, this new edition of the classic book offers contributions from experts in the field (Warner Burke, David Campbell, Chris Worley, David Jamieson, Kim Cameron, Michael Beer, Edgar Schein, Gibb Dyer, and Margaret Wheatley) and provides a road map through each episode of change facilitation. This updated edition features new chapters on positive change, leadership transformation, sustainability, and globalization. In addition, it includes exhibits, activities, instruments, and case studies, as well as an instructor's guide and supplemental materials on accompanying Website. This resource is written for OD practitioners, consultants, and scholars.

Author Biography

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. 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figure, and Table, and Exhibits	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Foundation	p. 9
Organization Development and Change	p. 11
Change Process and Models	p. 43
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Origins of OD	p. 71
Building Convergence Between Human Resource Management and OD	p. 94
Competencies of OD Practitioners	p. 107
Mindful Leadership Development: Assessing Self for Leading Change	p. 136
Appreciative Inquiry: OD in the Post-Modern Age	p. 158
OD Process to Guide Change	p. 183
Entry: Marketing and Positioning OD	p. 185
Front-End Work: Effectively Engaging with the Client System	p. 204
Launch: Assessment, Action Planning, and Implementation	p. 234
Situational Evaluation	p. 269
Closure: Freeing Up Energy to Move Forward	p. 287
Leves and Types of Change	p. 299
Taking Organization Culture Seriously	p. 301
Individual Development in OD: Human-Centric Interventions	p. 312
Team Building and the Four Cs of Team Performance	p. 329
Interventions in Large System	p. 345
Whole System Change: What It Is and Why It Matters	p. 363
SOAR: Linking Strategy and OD to Sustainable Performance
Special Issues in OD
Positive Organizational Change: What the Field of POS Offers to OD Practitioners	p. 397
Systemic Sustainability SM: Moving Sustainability from Ideas to Action	p. 411
The Global OD Consultant	p. 425
Inclusion: The HOW for Organizational Breakthrough	p. 436
Organization Design	p. 446
The OD Role in Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work	p. 457
Human Systems Dynamics: Competencies for a New Organizational Practice	p. 465
Seeing and Influencing Self-Organization	p. 476
Values, Ethics, and Expanding the Practice of OD	p. 492
Technologies to Support Interactive and Connective OD in a Virtual World	p. 502
Transformational Learning Journeys: Seeing Is Believing	p. 516
The Personhood of the OD Practitioner	p. 527
The Organizational Fitness Process: A System-Wide Alignment	p. 535
Context Blindness: What We Don't See Will Hurt Us	p. 546
Transforming the HR-OD Audit by Using Whole Systems	p. 555
Emergence: The Gestalt approach to Change	p. 561
Practicing Internal OD	p. 568
Estimating OD Success Rates at the National Level	p. 577
Four Risk factors of the Unexamined Life: Be-Know-Do	p. 588
Whole System Transformation: Becoming Dramatically Different	p. 594
The Keys to Building a Transformative OD Practice: an Interview with Edie Seashore	p. 608
The Future of Organization Development	p. 615
Dialogic OD: Turning Away from Diagnosis	p. 617
Valuable Insights on OD from the Contributors	p. 624
The Shifting Field of OD Practice	p. 634
Guest Essay: Soular Power	p. 639
About the Editors	p. 642
About the Contributors	p. 645
Subject Index	p. 665
Name Index	p. 677
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