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Practicing Organization Development: Leading Transformation and Change, 4th Edition

Description

THE ACCLAIMED RESOURCE FOR ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS, REVISED AND UPDATED

The fourth edition of Practicing Organization Development builds on its reputation as the most practical, comprehensive, useful, and clearly written handbook on the topic of organization development (OD). Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Practicing Organization Development contains information on current developments in the field and includes insightful contributions from leading OD practitioners and scholars. Comprehensive in scope, this essential text brings together a rich collection of theories, concepts, models, case applications, innovations, and historical and postmodern expansions in OD, transformation, and change.

In addition to offering a review of the basic elements of OD, this new edition puts the focus on the topic of transformation. Many of the book's expert contributors explore transformational change at the individual, team, department, and organizational level.

Practicing Organization Development provides the conceptual frameworks and approaches to help practitioners and leaders become transformational agents of change.

About the Author

THE EDITORS

WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL is president of Rothwell & Associates and professor of Workforce Education and Development at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus. He is author, editor, or co-editor of more than 91 books and 250 articles, including the bestselling Mastering the Instructional Design Process from Pfeiffer.

JACQUELINE M. STAVROS is a professor at the College of Management at Lawrence Technological University. She is a global speaker and co-author of 5 books, 16 book chapters, and more than 40 articles in Appreciative Inquiry, Sustainability, and SOAR, Thin Book of SOAR: Building Strengths-based Strategy.

ROLAND L. SULLIVAN is founder of Sullivan Transformation Agents. He has taught OD in 22 universities. For more than 50 years, he has facilitated change journeys in 44 countries in every major industry. He is known for Whole System Transformation™.