Ironies In Organizational Development
eBook - PDF

Ironies In Organizational Development

Revised And Expanded

  1. 680 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ironies In Organizational Development

Revised And Expanded

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Book Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Undercutting the Irony of Ironies with Early and Recent Data
  10. 2 Further Weakening the Irony of Ironies
  11. 3 Challenging a Critical Assumption of the Capstone Irony
  12. 4 Toward Building Work Cultures to Order
  13. 5 Saving Conceptual Shortfalls from Themselves
  14. 6 Checking Downstream Progress, Years Later
  15. 7 Responsible Freedom as the Goal in OD, Part I
  16. 8 Responsible Freedom as the Goal in OD, Part II
  17. 9 Responsible Freedom as the Goal in OD, Part III
  18. 10 Not Every Learning Design Works Every Time
  19. 11 Not Every Design ā€œWorksā€ Everywhere
  20. 12 Illustrating Large-System Change in Business
  21. 13 Illustrating Large-System Change in Government
  22. 14 IIIustrating Large-System Change in Health Care
  23. 15 Illustrating Large-System Change at the Interface
  24. 16 A Probably Modest Contribution to Success Rates
  25. 17 A Big Contributor to Heightened Success Rates, Almost Undoubtedly
  26. 18 Acknowledging Some Limitations of ā€œOne Person, One Voteā€
  27. 19 Highlighting Differences in Personal Slack for Choice and Change, Part I
  28. 20 Highlighting Differences in Personal Slack for Choice and Change, Part II
  29. 21 Enlarging the Empowering Potential of the Workweek
  30. 22 Enhancing the Empowering Potential of the Concept ā€œWorkplaceā€
  31. 23 Enhancing the Empowering Potential of the Concept ā€œDevelopmentā€
  32. 24 Defining ā€œChangeā€ as Trinitarian
  33. 25 Really Appreciating Appreciative Inquiry
  34. 26 Reducing Ironies and Increasing Success Rates
  35. Author Index
  36. Subject Index