Joan V. Gallos, editor ; foreword by Edgar H. Schein.
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San Francisco, CA :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Jossey-Bass,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxx, 1057 pages :
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illustrations ;
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23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
The Jossey-Bass business & management series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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36. Designing high-performance work systems : organizing people, work, technology, and information -- 37. Diversity as strategy -- 38. The leader's new work : building learning organizations -- 39. Compassion in organizational life. -- 40. Generating simultaneous personal, team, and organization development -- 41. Emerging directions : is there a new OD? -- 42. The future of OD? -- 43. From cells to communities : deconstructing and reconstructing the organization -- 44. Actions for global learners, launchers, and leaders -- 45. Knowledge-worker productivity : the biggest challenge -- 46. Beyond greening : strategies for a sustainable world -- 47. The healthy organization.
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Foreword : observations on the state of organization development -- 1. What is organization development? -- 2. Where did OD come from? -- 3. Revolutions in OD : the new and the new, new things -- 4. Theories and practices of organizational development -- 5. Kurt Lewin and the planned approach to change : a reappraisal -- 6. Effective intervention activity / Chris Argyris -- 7. Action research : rethinking Lewin -- 8. Action learning and action science : are they different? -- 9. Toward a theory of positive organizational change -- 10. Leading change : why transformation efforts fail -- 11. The congruence model of change -- 12. Teaching smart people how to learn -- 13. Facilitative process interventions : task processes in groups -- 14. Large group interventions and dynamics -- 15. Understanding the power of position : a diagnostic model -- 16. Reframing complexity : a four-dimensional approach to organizational diagnosis, development, and change -- 17. Masterful consulting -- 18. Flawless consulting -- 19. The organization development contract -- 20. The facilitator and other facilitative roles / -- 21. The right coach -- 22. Reframing change : training, realigning, negotiating, grieving, and moving on -- 23. What constitutes an effective internal consultant? -- 24. Reversing the lens : dealing with different styles when you are the boss --25. Relations with superiors : the challenge of "managing" a boss -- 26. Enlist others -- 27. Business strategy : creating the winning formula -- 28. Matching strategy and structure -- 29. Designing work : structure and process for learning and self-control -- 30. Making it happen : turning workplace vision into reality -- 31. So how can you assess your corporate culture? -- 32. What makes people effective? -- 33. What makes a team effective or ineffective? -- 34. Developing the individual leader -- 35. Creating a community of leaders.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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'Organization Development' introduces key thinkers in the field, amongst them Ed Lawler, Peter Senge, Chris Argyris, Richard Hackman, Jay Galbraith, Cooperrider, Elizabeth Moss Kanter, Bolman & Deal, Kouzes & Posner, & Ed Schein.