Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change

by Donald L. Anderson

Overview

Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Sixth Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Today's practitioners seek a solid foundation that is academically rigorous, but also relevant, timely, practical, and grounded in OD values and ethics. In this bestselling text, author Donald L. Anderson provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today’s challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and evolving workforce expectations.

The new Sixth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest research. New cases, chapter learning objectives, examples, sections on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the impact of COVID-19 on the workplace provide readers with the latest information on OD best practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781071876206
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/20/2023
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	520
Sales rank:	772,100
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 • What Is Organization Development?
Chapter 2 • History of Organization Development
Chapter 3 • Core Values and Ethics of Organization Development
Chapter 4 • Foundations of Organizational Change
Chapter 5 • The Organization Development Practitioner and the OD Process
Chapter 6 • Entry and Contracting
Chapter 7 • Data Gathering
Chapter 8 • Diagnosis and Feedback
Chapter 9 • An Introduction to Interventions
Chapter 10 • Individual Interventions
Chapter 11 • Team Interventions
Chapter 12 • Whole Organization and Multiple Organization Interventions
Chapter 13 • Organization Culture and Design Interventions
Chapter 14 • Sustaining Change, Evaluating, and Ending an Engagement
Chapter 15 • Global Issues in Organization Development
Chapter 16 • The Future of Organization Development

Editorial Reviews

"A breath of fresh air. A well written, straightforward, easy to digest text that moves away from being focused only on the discipline of
business and included real life approaches to OD for social and behavioral disciplines."

Shonda Lawrence

The book provides a good open-systems introduction to the topic of organization change, presenting the big concepts in a way that managers can use.

Ron Camp

[Organization Development, The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Third Edition] is very organized and the case studies help reinforce the concepts learned in class. It is a great book!“

Helen Muyia