Organization Development: A Jossey- Boss Reader

Joan V. Gallos (ed)

Organization Development: A Jossey- Boss Reader - San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2006. - xxx, 1057 pages : illustrations ; - Jossey-Bass business & management series. .

Includes index

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. 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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