Organization development and change /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cummings, Thomas G.
Other Authors: Worley, Christopher G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mason, Ohio : South-Western, [2005]
Edition:8th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • General introduction to organization development
  • The nature of planned change
  • The organization development practitioner
  • Entering and contracting
  • Diagnosing organizations
  • Diagnosing groups and jobs
  • Collecting and analyzing diagnostic information
  • Feeding back diagnostic information
  • Designing interventions
  • Leading and managing change
  • Evaluating and institutionalizing organization development interventions
  • Individual, interpersonal, and group process approaches
  • Organization process approaches
  • Restructuring organization
  • Employee involvement
  • Work design
  • Performance management - Developing and assisting members
  • Competitive and collaborative strategies
  • Organization transformation
  • Organization development in global settings
  • Organization development in nonindustrial settings health care, family businesses, school systems, and the public sector
  • Future direction in organization development
  • Glossary.