Organization Development

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).

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

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