Product Description: This case study book provides 30 cases and responses from 90 Od consultants with expert insights specific to each particular case topic. This book is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between the Homer Johnson, Peter Sorensen and Therese Yaeger, and the Od Network that originally printed these cases in the Od Practitioner...read more

This second volume in the Contemporary Trends in Organization Development and Change Series addresses one of the most complex and important issues for management and organization development today -- how to plan for and create an organization capable of not only competing but excelling in an almost impossibly turbulent and uncertain environment. The book brings together a series of articles by practitioner-scholars. Those authors who have the responsibility for helping their organization create the future, and who also have the responsibility of helping us conceptually understand the process of strategic Od. In this book, you can sense the value of both of these voices – the practitioner and the scholar. These authors include organization development executives from global Fortune 500 organizations, major community service organizations, major academic contributors to the field, and Od practitioners from major consulting firms. Each author makes a unique contribution by providing strategies for planning the future, implementing change, and creating organizational capabilities for sustained success. New and current models for strategic organization development and candid discussions of issues, difficulties, and ways of coping with unanticipated events are provided. This book is dedicated to contributing to a better understanding and sharing of how major corporations, community service organizations, and Od consultants are experiencing and working with one of the most important organizational problems of today – how to manage change for success.

Managing Human Resources for Organizational Effectiveness

Product Description: From the preface: This book is intended as a source book for our students, as a way of introducing them to and assisting them in their shared--our shared--mission for the creation of better, more fulfilling and more productive work places, places where the potential for OD and OD values are most fully realized...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by David L. Cooperrider, Peter F., Jr. Sorensen, Diana Whitney, Therese F Yaeger