Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

THE PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK

The purpose of Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change (3rd ed.) is to build the readers’ competencies in assessing the need for change, managing change, and facilitating the implementation of change in organization settings. After finishing this book, the reader should be able to do the following:

1. Define OD and how to do it;

2. Define a model of planned change, its key steps, and explain how it is related to OD;

3. Describe and apply the competencies needed to conduct planned change;

4. Understand the levels of change and various approaches to change at each level;

5. Facilitate the contracting of an external OD consultant/practitioner and work successfully with that person—if ...