Download or read book Organization Development Basics written by Lisa Haneberg and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primer on the broad field of organization development (OD) and a foundation for understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner. Organizational Development Basics will help trainers, training managers, and beginning OD practitioners learn the fundamentals of influencing organizational strategy and direction. Learn the basics for managing change and aligning people, processes, and practices for success.
Download or read book Organization Development Fundamentals written by William J. Rothwell and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tumultuous global business environment, change is a constant. Organizations are affected by many factors from the local economy to global competition. To be successful they must do more than react to changes, they need to be proactive. Organization Development Fundamentals provides a starting point for those interested in learning more about taking this proactive approach. The authors explore the many facets of organization development and change management, including the theories, models, and steps necessary to complete the process. This is a perfect resource for professionals who are just starting out in the OD field or who want to brush-up on the basics. After reading this book, you will be able to: Define organization development and change management. Implement a change effort. Understand the competencies required of successful change agents. Recognize and solve ethical dilemmas related to change.
Download or read book Organizational Development Basics written by Lisa Haneberg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organization Development written by Wyatt Warner Burke and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization Development, Third Edition is today's complete overview of the OD discipline for managers, executives, administrators, consultants, and students alike. Fully updated to reflect major changes since the classic Second Edition, it explains how OD is now practiced, and how it is continuing to evolve. The authors illuminate each key theory in the field, giving readers the background they need to translate theory into action, make key choices, help organizations learn, and lead change.
Download or read book Leading Organizational Development and Change written by Riann Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook covers the fundamentals of organizational development and change (ODC) theory while offering a comprehensive, structured, and systematic approach to guide change management strategies at the organization level. It provides an in-depth understanding of and the tools necessary for designing, diagnosing, implementing and evaluating organizational change interventions. Students will be exposed to case studies in ODC from selected international and Caribbean/Latin American organizations, demonstrating ODC in practice across a broad geographical context. This textbook, the first to offer a macro-level perspective of ODC, provides students with the tools needed to be successful in implementing change into today's organizations.
Download or read book Organization Development written by Donald L. Anderson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a good open-systems introduction to the topic of organization change, presenting the big concepts in a way that managers can use.
Download or read book Back to Basics written by Lawrence Minks and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides leaders a practical model of the basics of Organization Development by offering a broadened approach to facilitate positive change. It represents my lifetime career of practice and application that was greatly influenced by executives, mentors and colleagues. A series of case studies integrating concepts at multiple levels are showcased in each chapter to assist your executive team diagnose and continually improve their organization. The material highlights the process for using strategic guidelines, systematic frameworks, sequencing interventions and evaluation for improving your work environment.
Download or read book Organization Development written by V. G. Kondalkar and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2009 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: It is necessary for the organization to invent organizational culture, have killed people and world class technologies, evolve latest processes and introduce systems that make organization a truly learning organization. In the light of the above, the book offers a practical and realistic approach to the study of Organizational Development. The concepts, theories and OD interventions have been explained in details. Chapters on emotional intelligence, empowerment, learning organizations, quality of work life and future of OD were considered necessary and therefore have been incl.
Download or read book Practicing Organization Development written by William J. Rothwell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised, this new edition of the classic book offers contributions from experts in the field (Warner Burke, David Campbell, Chris Worley, David Jamieson, Kim Cameron, Michael Beer, Edgar Schein, Gibb Dyer, and Margaret Wheatley) and provides a road map through each episode of change facilitation. This updated edition features new chapters on positive change, leadership transformation, sustainability, and globalization. In addition, it includes exhibits, activities, instruments, and case studies, supplemental materials on accompanying Website. This resource is written for OD practitioners, consultants, and scholars.
Download or read book The Human Workplace written by Andy Swann and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies spend time and effort developing their employees - their most important asset - but they often forget to consider the company structure, culture, environment and processes required to help the newly upskilled individuals thrive. The Human Workplace is a practical guide which shows how this can be achieved by taking a truly people-centric approach to organizational development. Exploring how people-centred organizations behave and evolve, the book covers how to use design thinking to create optimal organizational structures, how to make a business a community, how to use communication to inform and empower people and how to use technology to allow employees to work more efficiently. Packed with interviews and case studies from Microsoft, Schneider Electric, CGI, Universal, Lego, SAP, BBC Worldwide and other global companies that have benefited from a people-centred approach, The Human Workplace redefines our view of the organization, its relationship with people and how we interact with it. It is an essential guide for all HR and OD professionals seeking to get the right people in the right places doing the right things at the right time.
Download or read book Organization Development written by Gary McLean and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2005-12-02 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate programs in organization development, management, human resource development, and industrial and organizational psychology, Organization Development provides readers with an overview of the field and acquaints them with the basic principles, practices, values, and skills of OD. Covering every aspect of the work of an OD professional and featuring numerous illustrative case studies, it shows how OD professionals actually get work and what the first steps in any OD effort should be. Author Gary McLean surveys different ways to assess an organizational situation—including a comparison of the Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry models—and provides forms for devising an action plan based on that assessment. He then looks at how to choose and implement a range of interventions at different levels, as well as how to evaluate the results of an intervention. Organization Development goes beyond the organizational level to look at the application of OD on community, national, regional, and global levels. And it successfully combines theory and practice; process and outcomes; performance and affective results; effectiveness and efficiency.
Download or read book Strategy Organization and Performance Management written by Soeren Dressler and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing effective organizations is a key challenge for companies in particular in the fast-moving business world of today. The late 1990s and early 2000s have seen multiple Organization Management innovations applied successfully such as Business Process Outsourcing, Shared Services and Offshoring. Advanced techniques such as Balanced Scorecards and integrated Planning Systems have become effective enablers for strategy execution. This book spans a framework from strategy definition and designing strategy-compliant organizations to monitoring effective implementation and Performance Management. On this journey basic principles of Organization Management are discussed in detail and at the same time state-of-the-art Best Practices are highlighted. A set of to-the-point case studies demonstrate how leading-edge companies make effective use of the concepts discussed. The approach of the book is of great use for both: students underway to become Organization Management practioners and experienced business experts in search of the latest thinking and tools to enhance Organizational Effectiveness - and everybody in between. Instant access to electronic ebook edition available. Click on Diesel eBooks logo to the left.
Download or read book Leadership Development Basics written by Karen Lawson and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fast-paced, global environment of the 21st century, leadership development is a key business strategy—and a crucial element of your organization's competitive advantage. With Leadership Development Basics to help you, you can update your leadership development program and begin preparing tomorrow's leaders today. Whether you're in senior management or a member of the human resources, learning, or development professions, you'll find an integrated, comprehensive approach that can be tailored to your needs. Learn about initiatives such as mentoring, coaching, job rotation, performance management, and succession planning, along with systems for establishing and evaluating your own unique program, which will help you cultivate an environment in which people thrive. Also, get techniques and tools that will help you design, develop, and implement a leadership development program appropriate to your organization's size, strategies, and resources.
Download or read book Leadership Games written by Stephen S. Kaagan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1998-10-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Games presents 25 practical, inexpensive experiential activities designed to be used in various leadership training and development programs. This book centers on those areas of primary concern to today′s managers-team leadership, risking innovation, fostering collaboration, managing conflict, and using diversity. The exercises are grounded in the management and educational literature, and for each exercise there is a set of explicit directions, cues on strategic considerations, including appropriate timing, indicators of successful application, and a rich sample of proposed questions that point the way to fruitful post-exercise discussions with participants. Author Stephen S. Kaagan has extensive experience both in the academic and consulting worlds, including being a past president of the Outward Bound program in Rockland, Maine. Leadership Games is unique in that it: + Explores both leadership development theory and offers practical suggestions + Provides much more than bare bones instructions on how to facilitate experiential exercises + Shows the link between the exercises and critical organizational challenges This book will be an invaluable tool for professionals and students interested in leadership, organizational studies, management, human resources, communication, gender studies, sociology, psychology, and education.
Download or read book Organization Development written by Robert Smither and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization Development: Strategies for Changing Environments, Second Edition, aims to help managers of the future successfully plan for and manage changes in the workplace. The book teaches students how to conceptualize and implement planned interventions to increase organizational effectiveness. Building on the success of the previous edition, Smither, Houston, and McIntire maintain the foundational and historical organization development content while incorporating a number of key changes: new material on change management, globalization, diversity, sustainability, ethics, talent management, and emotional intelligence; a greater emphasis on the practical application of the theory; new case studies focusing on current business dilemmas that align with the chapter objectives. This edition brings this classic book into the 21st century, making it a valuable resource for students of organizational development, organizational behavior, change management, and leadership.
Download or read book Organization Development and Change written by Thomas G. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizational Development written by Newton Margulies and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1972 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational development in perspective; The components of organizational development; The process and technology for organizational development; Emerging issues in organizational development.
