Practicing Organization Development

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.