Rothwell, William J. (Ed.) <br/><br/>
Practicing organization development :   a guide for leading change / 
William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, Roland L. Sullivan and Arielle Sullivan, editors. 
 - Third edition 
 - San Francisco, CA :  Pfeiffer,  2010. 
 - xx, 684 pages:  illustrations;  24 cm. 
 - Pfeiffer essential resources for training and HR professionals .
<br/><br/> Includes indexes. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: 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 -- Part 2: 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 -- Part 3: 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 -- Part 4: Special issues in OD -- Positive organizational change: what the field of POS offers to OD practitioners -- Systematic sustainability: moving sustainability from ideas to action -- The global OD consultant -- Inclusion: the HOW of organizational breakthrough -- Organization design -- The OD role in making mergers and acquisition 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 don't see will hurt us -- Transforming the HR-OD audit by using while systems -- Emergence: the gestalt approach to change -- Practicing internal OD -- Estimating OD success rates at the national level -- Four risk factors to 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 -- Part 5: 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 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780470405444 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Institutional Fund 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Organizational change--Management.<br/>Business consultants--Handbooks, manuals, etc.