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Organization Development: Behavioral Science Interventions for Organization Improvement, 6/E
ISBN-10: 013242231X
ISBN-13: 9780132422314
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1999
Format: Paper; 360 pp
Published: 12/15/1998
Status: Instock
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Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes. The authors present a concise and comprehensive exposition of the theory, practice, and research related to organization development. The Sixth Edition reflects the most recent developments, advances and expansions, and research in the area of OD.
- Brief Paperback.
- Applied practical coverage of OD.
- Concise, comprehensive coverage of the latest OD theory, practice, and research.
- NEW - New section presenting Porras and Robertson's models.
- NEW - Material discussing Nadler's “Congruence Model”.
- NEW - “Open-book management”.
- NEW - Section discussing The Change Management Handbook and its implications for OD.
- NEW - John Kotter's research on why organizational transformation efforts sometimes fail.
- NEW - Added material on cross-functional teams.
- NEW - Maximizing the odds of team interventions being constructive.
- NEW - Fisher, Ury, and Patton's “principled negotiations”.
- NEW - New material on future search conferences.
- NEW - Added section on “real time strategic change”.
- NEW - New “self-design strategy” section.
- NEW - Ledford, Lawler, and Mohrman's concepts of “high involvement” and “high performance”.
- NEW - Additional material on coaching and mentoring.
- NEW - Section on instrumented training.
- NEW - Also, Nadler's “twelve action steps for managing the transition state”.
- NEW - New section on the organizational “context of search for community”.
- Emphasizes the ever-changing paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail. Pg.___
- Sets discussions in the rapidly-evolving contexts of globalization, intensified competition and collaboration, Total Quality Management (TQM) and large-scale organizational change. Pg.___
- New section presenting Porras and Robertson's models.
- Material discussing Nadler's “Congruence Model”.
- “Open-book management”.
- Section discussing The Change Management Handbook and its implications for OD.
- John Kotter's research on why organizational transformation efforts sometimes fail.
- Added material on cross-functional teams.
- Maximizing the odds of team interventions being constructive.
- Fisher, Ury, and Patton's “principled negotiations”.
- New material on future search conferences.
- Added section on “real time strategic change”.
- New “self-design strategy” section.
- Ledford, Lawler, and Mohrman's concepts of “high involvement” and “high performance”.
- Additional material on coaching and mentoring.
- Section on instrumented training.
- Also, Nadler's “twelve action steps for managing the transition state”.
- New section on the organizational “context of search for community”.
I. AN INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT.
II. THEORY AND MANAGEMENT OF OD.
III. OD INTERVENTIONS.
IV. KEY CONSIDERATIONS AND ISSUES.
For the Management Discipline
eHRM: An Internet Guide to Human Resource Management
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©2001 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 49 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130912832 |
ISBN-13: 9780130912831
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