Organization Development--the thirteenth volume in the Professional Practice Series--offers practitioners a comprehensive resource for understanding the theory and practice of OD and demonstrates its organizational effectiveness. The book offers a fresh source for exploring the primary theoretical influences on OD, shows how data-driven OD methods can be applied across a wide variety of organizational settings, discusses the major issues and trends in the field, and includes a wealth of helpful models and practical suggestions for applying these techniques in organizations.
Organization Development--the thirteenth volume in the Professional Practice Series--offers practitioners a comprehensive resource for understanding the theory and practice of OD and demonstrates its organizational effectiveness. The book offers a fresh source for exploring the primary theoretical influences on OD, shows how data-driven OD methods can be applied across a wide variety of organizational settings, discusses the major issues and trends in the field, and includes a wealth of helpful models and practical suggestions for applying these techniques in organizations.
Janine Waclawski is a principal consultant in the management consulting services line of business at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she specializes in using data-driven methods for organizational change and executive development. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University. She specializes in using surveys and multisource feedback for organizational change and executive development. Allan H. Church is director of organization and management development at PepsiCo, Inc. He specializes in designing customized multisource feedback systems and large-scale diagnostic surveys for organization development and change.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword (Eduardo Salas).
Preface.
The Authors.
Part One: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches toOrganization Development.
1 Introduction and Overview of Organization Development as aData-Driven Approach for Organizational Change (Janine Waclawski,Allan H. Church).
2 Multisource Feedback for Organization Development and Change(Allan H. Church, Alan G. Walker, Joel Brockner).
3 The Role of Personality Assessment in Organization Development(W. Warner Burke, Debra A. Noumair).
4 Surveys as a Tool for Organization Development and Change(Salvatore V. Falletta, Wendy Combs).
5 Interviews and Focus Groups: Quintessential OrganizationDevelopment Techniques (Janine Waclawski, Steven G. Rogelberg).
6 Organization Development and the Bottom Line: Linking SoftMeasures and Hard Measures (Steven H. Cady, Mark J. Lewis).
Part Two: Process-Based Approaches to OrganizationDevelopment.
7 Process Consultation: A Cornerstone of OrganizationDevelopment Practice (William M. Kahnweiler).
8 The Heart of It All: Group- and Team-Based Interventions inOrganization Development (Richard W. Woodman, William A.Pasmore).
9 Action Learning (Victoria J. Marsick, Judy O?Neil, Karen E.Watkins).
10 Appreciative Inquiry: The New Frontier (Stephen P.Fitzgerald, Kenneth L. Murrell, H. Lynn Newman).
11 Understanding and Using Large System Interventions (BarbaraBenedict Bunker, Billie T. Alban).
Part Three: Major Developments in Organization Development.
12 Organization Development and IT: Practicing OD in the VirtualWorld (Nancy T. Tippins).
13 Around the World: Organization Development in theInternational Context (Michael Marquardt).
14 Evaluating the Impact of Organization DevelopmentInterventions (Jennifer W. Martineau, Hallie Preskill).
15 Organization Development Ethics: Reconciling Tensions in ODValues (Gary N. McLean, Susan H. DeVogel).
16 Voices from the Field: Future Directions for OrganizationDevelopment (Allan H. Church, Janine Waclawski, Seth A. Berr).
