Organization Development: Behavioral Science Interventions For Organization Improvement

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Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, longrange 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.-Applied practical coverage of OD.Concise, comprehensive coverage of the latest OD theory, practice, and research.Emphasizes the everchanging paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail. Table Of Contents I. AN INRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT 1. The Field of Organization Development 2. Definitions and Historical overview of Organization Development 3. Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs in OD II. THEORY AND MANAGEMENT OF OD 4. Foundations of Organization Development 5. Managing the OD Process 6. Action Research and Organization Development 7. Action Research: A Process and an Approach 8. Examples of Action Research 9. Organization Development 10. Concluding Comments III. OD INTERVENTIONS 11. An Overview of OD Interventions 12. Team Interventions 13. Intergroup and Third a Party Peacemaking Interventions 14. Comprehensive OD Interventions 15. Structural Interventions and the Applicability of OD 16. Training Experiences IV. KEY CONSIDERATIONS AND ISSUES 17. Issues in Consultant a Client Relationships 18. Power, Politics, and Organization Development 19. The Future and Organization Development