Research in Organizational Change and Development

Debra A. Noumair is a Professor in Social-OrganizationalPsychology, and Founder and Director of the Executive Master’s Program inChange Leadership, at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. She is alsothe co-author of OrganizationDevelopment: A Process of Learning and Changing, co-editor of Group Dynamics, Organizational Irrationality,and Social Complexity: Group Relations Reader 3, and Associate Editor of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.Abraham B. (Rami) Shani is a Professor atthe Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University, USA,and a Visiting Professor at the School of Management, Politecnico di Milano,Italy. He is the author or editor of over 32 volumes and books and more than120 articles in the areas of organization change and development, collaborativeresearch methodologies, learning in and by organizations, sustainability, andsustainable effectiveness.

• PrefaceConsulting to the Eco-system Level; Susan Albers Mohrman and StuWinbyEnhancing 360 Feedback for Individual Assessment and Organization Development: Methods and Lessons from the Field; Allan H. Church, LorraineM. Dawson, Kira L. Barden, Christopher T. Rotolo, and Michael D. TullerOrganization Renewal through Entrepreneurial Initiatives: When the Seed Changes the Soil; Tobias Fredberg and JohannaE. PregmarkA Test of the Theory of Planned Behavior: Influencing Behavioral Change to Go "Green"; LuZhang and Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. TenkasiThe Colors of Change – Revisited: Situating and Describing the Theory and Its Practical Applications; Hans Vermaak and Leon de CaluwéOrganizing Intelligence (OQ): The Source of Productive Workplaces; Mark AddlesonChampions of Change and Organization Development: A Return to Schön and Typology for Future Research and Practice; Andani ThakhathiAgents of Change: Insights from Three Case Studies of Hospital Transformations; DanielleA. Tucker and Stefano CirellaSystem Change at National Government Level; Raymond Saner andLichia Saner-YiuOpening Spaces and Living in the Limits: Attempts at Intervening in Organization Studies; Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich

Researchers working in management, organization development, and organization studies in the US, Europe, South Africa, and China provide 10 chapters that discuss organization change and development to help organizations improve health and well-being in society. They address sustainable development, the use of 360-degree feedback for individual assessment and organization development, organizational renewal through entrepreneurial initiatives, the implications of the Theory of Planned Behavior for organization development and change in terms of carbon labeling of products as a strategy to go green, the application of the colors of change theory, concepts related to ideas of organizing intelligence, champions of change and organization development, system change at the national government level, and intervening in organizational studies using feminist theory and cultural studies.