Cases in Organization Development

by Golembiewski, Robert T.; Varney, Glenn H.

• ISBN13: 9780875814223
• ISBN10: 0875814220
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This casebook provides a comprehensive look at the essentials of organizational development practice. Cases are grouped under four perspectives that together provide students with the background they need to be successful in the full range of organizational development activities they will encounter as practitioners. Cases range from the types of everyday issues students will confront on the job to more unusual situations that offer more challenge. In addition, a long case involves them in an integrative experience that covers the full range of organizational development activities.

Table of Contents

Perspective I

OD AND ODERS IN CONVENTIONAL SETTINGS CREATING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE WORK CULTURE: THE BOEING DULUTH STORY

This Matter Needs Attention Now! A Troubled Transit Line

Be Sure to Bring Along Plenty of Shells! A Grumble or a Meta-Grumble? Choosing Your Degree of Risk

Evaluating a Dean's Performance

Family Life from an OD Perspective

Go or No-Go? Keep It Quiet, Guys! Jack, Your Comments Are Neither Responsive nor Helpful

Volunteer Turnover in ASO

Should You Help Build a Team? If So, How? Who Is the Client? Transitioning Toward a Team-Based Organization

Six Events in the Life of a New Voluntary Agency

Organization Termination in the Nonprofit Setting

So, How Do You See Yourself as an OD Consultant? Western Transducer Corporation

Perspective II

ODERS IN UNUSUAL AND EVEN EXOTIC SETTINGS WHEN THE CLIENT DIES

Consulting at a Distance

A Cast-Iron Sponge of a Client

A Second Kind of Crisis

Is the Issue Confidentiality? It'll Only Be for a Short Time

Measuring Your OD Consultant

Oh, He's So Strong! Smelling a Consultant Ratbert

The Yellow Envelope on the Floor

Welcome to Town, Big Guy! Leaving "The Source

Shadow Consulting to an OD Consultant

Perspective III

LEADING ORGANIZATION CHANGE VIA ACTION RESEARCH: AN INTEGRATIVE EXPERIENCE WITH A SINGLE CASE

Jake White

Perspective IV

A STATEMENT OF VALUES AND ETHICS BY PROFESSIONALS IN ORGANIZATION AND HUMAN SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT