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

by William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, Roland L. Sullivan, Arielle Sullivan
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
21h 9m
English
Pfeiffer
Content preview from Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Values, Ethics, and Expanding the Practice of OD
William Gellermann and Terri Egan
 
 
 
 
 
The past three decades have seen a number of formal and informal dialogues, discussions, and debates about the nature of organization development (OD) and the values, ethics, and practices on which it is based. A classic article on the future of the field of OD suggested that, in contrast to a certain clarity around values that characterized the early days of OD, we have experienced a period of confusion and ambiguity—leaving practitioners in the position of having to rely on their individual ethical frameworks rather than an agreed-on set of ethical standards (Worley & Feyerherm, 2003). At the same time, the boundaries of what ...
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