ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT

AN INRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT
The Field of Organization Development
Definitions and Historical overview of Organization Development
Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs in OD
THEORY AND MANAGEMENT OF OD
Foundations of Organization Development
Managing the OD Process
Action Research and Organization Development
Action Research: A Process and an Approach
Examples of Action Research
Organization Development
Concluding Comments
OD INTERVENTIONS
An Overview of OD Interventions
Team Interventions
Intergroup and Third – Party Peacemaking Interventions
Comprehensive OD Interventions
Structural Interventions and the Applicability of OD
Training Experiences
KEY CONSIDERATIONS AND ISSUES
Issues in Consultant – Client Relationships
Power, Politics, and Organization Development
The Future and Organization Development
Salient Features
Applied practical coverage of OD.
Concise, comprehensive coverage of the latest OD theory, practice, and research.
Emphasizes the ever-changing paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail.
Sets discussions in the rapidly-evolving contexts of globalization, intensified competition and collaboration, Total Quality Management (TQM) and large-scale organizational change.