Organization Development - International Student Edition 5/e

Donald L. Anderson, Ph.D., University of Colorado, teaches organization development at the University of Denver and organization design at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a practicing organization development consultant and has consulted internally and externally with a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions. Dr. Anderson's research interest is in discourse in organizational and institutional settings, and his studies of organizational discourse and change have been published in journals such as the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Gestion, and Journal of Business and Technical Communication. He is the author of the text Organization Design: Creating Strategic and Agile Organizations (SAGE, 2019) and editor of the text Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change (2nd ed., SAGE, 2017).

Preface Exercises and Activities Ancillaries Acknowledgements 1. What is Organization Development? 2. History of Organization Development 3. Core Values and Ethics of Organization Development 4. Foundations of Organizational Change 5. The Organization Development Practitioner and the OD Process 6. Entry and Contracting 7. Data Gathering 8. Diagnosis and Feedback 9. An Introduction to Interventions 10. Individual Interventions 11. Team Interventions 12. Whole Organization and Multiple Organization Interventions 13. Organization Culture and Design Interventions 14. Sustanining Change, Evaluating, and Ending an Engagement 15. Global Issues in Organization Development 16. The Future of Organization Development References Author Index Subject Index About the Author