Answers to Questions Most Frequently Asked about Organization Development
Answers to Questions Most Frequently Asked about Organization Development

Author: Philip G. Hanson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995-08-03

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780803952041

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Answers to Questions Most Frequently Asked About Organization Development is a compact, practical book for students and managers who want an overview of the field of organization development without having to commit themselves to a lengthy, in-depth reading on the topic. The easy-to-read question-and-answer format is organized into topic areas to facilitate identification of those areas with which the reader is most concerned. The sequence of topics is set to move the reader from general statements, basic concepts, and values to more specific questions concerning the organization and the manager. For the reader who wants to delve deeper, a list of suggested readings and training programs occupies the last section of this handy book. Students, consultants, and managers will appreciate the straightforward manner in which Answers to Questions Most Frequently Asked About Organization Development demystifies the field of organization development.

Organization Development
Organization Development

Author: Donald L. Anderson

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1506363938

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Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Today's practitioners seek a solid foundation that is academically rigorous, but also relevant, timely, practical, and grounded in OD values and ethics. In this bestselling text, author Donald L. Anderson provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today’s challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and evolving workforce expectations.

Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change
Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change

Author: Donald L. Anderson

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2016-12-29

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1506365787

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Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change, Second Edition encourages students to practice organization development (OD) skills in unison with learning about theories of organizational change and human behavior. The book includes a comprehensive collection of cases about the OD process and organization-wide, team, and individual interventions, including global OD, dialogic OD, and OD in virtual organizations. In addition to real-world cases, author Donald L. Anderson gives students practical and experiential exercises that make the course material come alive through realistic scenarios that managers and organizational change practitioners regularly experience.

Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement
Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement

Author: A. Prasad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-05-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1403982295

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This book takes up a question that has rarely been raised in the field of management: 'Could modern Western colonialism have important implications for the practices and theories that inform management and organizations?' Employing the frameworks of postcolonial theory, an international group of scholars addresse this question, and offer remarkable insights about the implications of the colonial encounter for management. Wide-ranging in scope, the book covers major topics like cross-cultural management, control and resistance, corporate culture, the discourse of exoticization in museums and tourism, and stakeholder issues, and sheds new light on the troubling legacy of colonialism. Scholars and practitioners searching for a new idiom of management will find this book's critique of contemporary management invaluable.

Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations

Author: Robert T. Carter

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780761905493

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Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations provides conceptual models and practical approaches to organizational interventions which take account of cultural difference.

The New Development Management
The New Development Management

Author: Sadhvi Dar

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1848137400

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'Development management' is an idea that blends the seemingly innocuous claims of managerialism with notions of modernity and utopian ideals of 'third world' progress. This book views both phenomena as problematic and modernizing interventions. In doing so, it overturns and reclaims such ideas as participation, community, governance, NGOs, and civil society. The contributors argue that the practices of development are often threaded together by the language of managerialism - reports, logframe, encounters with the boss - yet all of these serve to further development's disengagement from the mundane. In voicing such concerns about the way development is going, and about the encroachment of managerialism, The New Development Management will breathe fresh life into post-development debates.

Jsl Vol 11-N2
Jsl Vol 11-N2

Author: JOURNAL OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1475811284

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The Journal of School Leadership is broadening the conversation about schools and leadership and is currently accepting manuscripts. We welcome manuscripts based on cutting-edge research from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations. The editorial team is particularly interested in working with international authors, authors from traditionally marginalized populations, and in work that is relevant to practitioners around the world. Growing numbers of educators and professors look to the six bimonthly issues to: deal with problems directly related to contemporary school leadership practice teach courses on school leadership and policy use as a quality reference in writing articles about school leadership and improvement.

Organization Development
Organization Development

Author: Warren G. Bennis

Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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Monograph on the behavioural aspects of management development to improve organization development effectiveness, with particular reference to theoretics and practice in the USA - covers psychological aspects and cultural factors of human relations, motivation, intergroup relations, group dynamics, and managerial leadership in the context of social change and innovation. Selected bibliography pp. 83 to 87.

Sustaining Change in Organizations
Sustaining Change in Organizations

Author: Julie Hodges

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1473911001

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Indispensable to understanding change, this unique text provides a comprehensive examination of how change can be sustained within organizations today. Featuring critical insights into theoretical concepts and current international examples, the book provides an accessible way for students to enhance their understanding and develop the crucial skills need to be successful when managing and leading change in organisations. Key Features: Synthesizes what is known about change in organizations and then provides practical ways of sustaining it Contains an international range of case studies and interviews which link theory to practice throughout Explores key contemporary topics such as power, politics, ethics and sustainability for an enhanced understanding of current debates and issues Activities, discussion questions and further reading in each chapter test your understanding of the key concepts and reinforce your learning End of book Glossary defines key terms, for those new to studying change. Comes with access to additional resources for students and lecturers including relevant SAGE journal articles to encourage wider reading

Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals
Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals

Author: Richard W. Sears

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1118428994

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Consultation interventions are an increasingly popular alternative to clinical practice, allowing the practitioner to interact with and affect many different individuals and organizations. This type of work challenges mental health professionals, drawing on all the skills and resources they may possess, yet also offers some of the greatest rewards and opportunities for service. Filled with numerous case examples and checklists, Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals contains a wealth of information on this important area of practice. It provides a comprehensive source for working with a diverse clientele in a variety of settings, discussing both traditional mental health consultation models and the fast-growing field of organizational consulting. The guide is divided into four parts: Individual-Level Consulting Issues takes up individual career assessment and counseling, along with how organizational contexts affect individual jobs; leadership, management, and supervision; executive assessment, selection, interviewing, and development; and executive coaching. Consulting to Small Systems discusses working with teams and groups; planning and conducting training and teambuilding; diversity in the workplace and in consultation. Consulting to Large Systems covers how to work with large organizations, including organizational structure, terms, culture, and concepts, as well as processes such as change and resistance; how to assess organizations, and the characteristics of healthy and dysfunctional workplaces; and issues involved in organizational intervention. Special Consulting Topics include issues such as the practical aspects of running a consulting practice; the skills required for successful clinical consultation; consultation services for special populations; and crisis consultation, including critical incident stress management, psychological first aid, disaster recovery, media communication, and school crisis response.