ABSTRACT

Offering effective tools and strategies, this book covers how to encourage and strengthen skills in process analysis and investigation, align OD principles with transforming societal values, clarify communication processes and decision-making procedures, and isolate and resolve roadblock issues. Constructing a platform to assess large-system agendas, Ironies in Organizational Development, Second Edition is an outstanding text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking organizational development courses in the departments of public administration, psychology, management, and sociology, as well as for in-service and professional workshops.

chapter 4|33 pages

Toward Building Work Cultures to Order

chapter 6|23 pages

Checking Downstream Progress, Years Later

chapter 10|21 pages

Not Every Learning Design Works Every Time

chapter 11|24 pages

Not Every Design “Works” Everywhere

chapter 12|37 pages

Illustrating Large-System Change in Business

chapter 24|24 pages

Defining “Change” as Trinitarian

chapter 25|13 pages

Really Appreciating Appreciative Inquiry