This engaging and accessible textbook shows the importance and role of organizational development around the world, within the context of organizational change. Fostering an analytic approach to organizational issues, it charts the evolution of the field and shows how today OD fosters organizational effectiveness and individual wellbeing. Firmly grounded in a global perspective, it provides a contemporary analysis of OD and highlights the key diagnostic and intervention techniques that can be used to build organizational effectiveness. With a range of critical perspectives, skills development exercises, and practitioner insight, this book blends theory and practice to show OD's conceptualization and its application to contemporary issues faced by organizations.
Suitable for upper undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level, this is the ideal textbook for anyone studying organizational development.
Part 1: Context and Theory
Introduction
1. Organizational Development in Focus-Role, Ethics and Values
2. The Theoretical Perspectives of OD
Part 2: The Organizational Development Engagement Cycle
3. Initial Meeting and Contracting
4. Investigation-Discovering What Needs to Change
5. Analysis and Feedback
6. Interventions-Generating Solutions
7. Designing for Change
8. Implementing OD Interventions
9. Evaluating, Embedding and Exiting OD Interventions
Part 3: Engaging People in Organizational Development
10. The Co-Production of OD Interventions
11. Global OD and Diversity
Part 4: Organizational Development Capabilities
12. Career Paths and Capabilities.
