Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change, 3rd Edition

by Editor: William J. Rothwell (The Pennsylvania State University); Editor: Jacqueline M. Stavros; Editor: Roland L. Sullivan (OD Corporation); Editor: Arielle Sullivan

• ISBN13: 9780470523926
• ISBN10: 0470523921
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

Essential resources for training and HR'professionals Practicing Organization Development A Guide for Leading Change William J. Rothwell Jacqueline M. Stavros Roland L. Sullivan Arielle Sullivan Editors Third edition Practicing Organization Development, Third Edition Building on its reputation as the most practical, comprehensive, useful, and clearly written handbook on organization development (OD), this new edition of Practicing Organization Development has been thoroughly revised updated to reflect the most recent developments in the field. With contributions from leading OD practitioners and scholars, the book includes a review of the core elements of OD that offers new information on a variety of topics such as leadership transformation and development, questions of inquiry, multi-level strategic change, global compact, positive states of organizing, and OD's role in creating a structure of belonging. Praise for the Third Edition of Practicing Organization Development "Nowadays a good roadmap is needed to navigate all the roads and this book does a great job of telling the reader of the variety of destinations that can be reached and how to reach them . . . .this book is as complete a compendium on what OD is and can be as is currently available." -Dr. Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management "Many of our organizations are in a crucible. Crucibles are utterly transformational experiences from which one emerges either hopelessly broken or powerfully emboldened to learn and lead. This book is a bright signal of what our change field has to assist you to become successful and make a difference in all you do." -Dr. Warren Bennis, professor and founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Foundations

Organization Development and Change

Change Process and Models

On the Shoulders of Giants: The Origins of OD

Building Convergence Between Human Resource Management and OD

Competencies of OD Practitioners

Mindful Leadership Development: Assessing Self for Leading Change

Appreciative Inquiry: OD in the Post-Modern Age

Od Process To Guide Change

Entry: Marketing and Positioning OD

Front-End Work: Effectively Engaging with the Client System

Launch: Assessment, Action Planning, and Implementation

Situational Evaluation

Closure: Freeing Up Energy to Move Forward

Levels And Types Of Change

Taking Organization Culture Seriously

Individual Development in OD: Human-Centric Interventions

Team Building and the Four Cs of Team Performance

Interventions in Large Systems

Whole System Change: What It Is and Why It Matters

SOAR: Linking Strategy and OD to Sustainable Performance

Special Issues In Od

Positive Organizational Change: What the Field of POS Offers to OD Practitioners

Systemic SustainabilitySM: Moving Sustainability from Ideas to Action

The Global OD Consultant

Inclusion: The How for Organizational Breakthrough

Organization Design

The OD Role in Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work

Human Systems Dynamics: Competencies for a New Organizational Practice

Seeing and Influencing Self-Organization

Values, Ethics, and Expanding the Practice of OD

Technologies to Support Interactive and Connective OD in a Virtual World

Transformational Learning Journeys: Seeing Is Believing

The Personhood of the OD Practitioner

The Organizational Fitness Process: A System-Wide Alignment

Context Blindness: What We Dont See Will Hurt Us

Transforming the HR-OD Audit by Using Whole Systems

Emergence: The Gestalt Approach to Change

Practicing Internal OD

Estimating OD Success Rates at the National Level

Four Risk Factors of the Unexamined Life: Be-Know-Do

Whole System Transformation: Becoming Dramatically Different

The Keys to Building a Transformative OD Practice: An Interview with Edie Seashore

The Future Of Organization Development

Dialogic OD: Turning Away from Diagnosis

Valuable Insights on OD from the Contributors

The Shifting Field of OD Practice

Guest Essay: Soular Power

Angé Wayne

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Subject Index

Name Index

Pfeiffer Publications Guide

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