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Enhanced with exhibits, activities, instruments, case studies, and more, each section of this indispensable resource shows you how to implement the change process. The editors, themselves leaders in the field of OD, include insights from a wide variety of well-known practitioners.

You'll get valuable tips on:

Defining OD Marketing OD services Planning and conducting an intervention Assessing the effort and gathering feedback Conducting large-scale and small-scale interventions Using OD methods internationally Maintaining ethical standards in OD . . . and much more!

In addition, the book outlines the eight steps in action research: entry, start-up, assessment and feedback, action planning, intervention, evaluation, adoption, and separation. You'll learn the methods for applying each step and the competencies required to successfully conduct each one.

Practicing Organization Development is packed with useful, current, proven direction on applying OD principles in the real world--order your copy today!

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Contents of the CD-ROM
• List of Exhibits, Tables, Figures, and Tables
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Statement of the Board
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part 1 Foundations
• 1 Organization Development
• 2 Models for Change
• 3 On the Shoulders of Giants: The Origins of OD
• 4 Using the HRD Audit to Build Convergence Between Human Resource Management and Organization Development
• 5 Competencies of OD Practitioners
• 6 Organization Development from the View of the Experts: Summary Results
• 7 A Future-Responsive Perspective for Competent Practice in OD
• Part 2 Steps to Guide Planned Change
• 8 Marketing OD
• 9 Pre-Launch
• 10 Launch: Assessment and Action Planning
• 11 Implementation and Continuing the Change Effort
• 12 Evaluation
• 13 Separation
• Part 3 Levels of Organizational Change
• 14 Taking Organization Culture Seriously
• 15 Person-Centered OD Interventions
• 16 Team Building: Past, Present, and Future
• 17 Interventions in Large Systems
• 18 Whole System Transformation: The Five Truths of Change
• 19 OD Through Interlevel Dynamics
• Part 4 Special Issues in OD
• 20 Global Organization Development
• 21 Values, Ethics, and Practice in the Field of Organization Development
• 22 Bringing Every Mind into the Game to Realize the Positive Revolution in Strategy: The Appreciative Inquiry Summit
• 23 Human Systems Dynamics: Competencies in a Complex World
• 24 Technology and Organization Development
• 25 The Personhood of the Consultant: The OD Practitioner as Human Being
• 26 Adding to the Complexity of Personal Change
• 27 Practicing Internal OD
• 28 Our Work for the Times in Which We Live
• Appendix I A Self-Assessment Tool for OD Competencies
• Appendix II Future OD Practice and Practitioner Competencies
• About the Editors
• About the Contributing Authors
• About the Series Editors
• About the Board Members
• Subject Index
• Name Index
• How to Use the CD-Rom
• Pfeiffer Publications Guide

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL is associate professor in The Department of Adult Education, Instructional Systems, and Workforce Education and Development at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the coauthor of Improving On-the-Job Training (1994) and Mastering the Instructional Design Process (1992), both from Jossey-Bass.