This engaging and accessible textbook shows the importance and role of organizational development around the world, within the context of organizational change. Fostering an analytic approach to organizational issues, it charts the evolution of the field and shows how today OD fosters organizational effectiveness and individual wellbeing. Firmly grounded in a global perspective, it provides a contemporary analysis of OD and highlights the key diagnostic and intervention techniques that can be used to build organizational effectiveness. With a range of critical perspectives, skills development exercises, and practitioner insight, this book blends theory and practice to show OD's conceptualization and its application to contemporary issues faced by organizations.
Suitable for upper undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level, this is the ideal textbook for anyone studying organizational development.
Talk to any strategy practitioner or senior executive about driving strategic outcomes in an organization and it soon becomes evident that even the best strategic planning or strategy roadmap is ineffectual without the change that comes from execution of relevant projects and initiatives that makes strategy happen. Organization Development is not only timely as organizations revisit their strategic planning in light of extraordinary factors challenging many business and operating models, it is essential. Beyond offering the foundations of what organization development is in practice and the evolution of theories that try to explain it and its role in the strategy domain, Prof. Hodges offers a comprehensive process for organization development practitioners. Getting organization development right is critical, and Prof. Hodges' book advocates and presents a practical, analytical framework grounded in robust academic research methodologies that can lead ODPs to pinpoint problems and issues and to develop solid, evidence-based conclusions and solutions, while being attuned to the pitfalls that often come from the analytical journey. Organization Development is an important resource that practitioners and business students will return to time and again.
