January 2026
Beginner to intermediate
464 pages
12h 43m
English
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Practicing Organization Development, 5th Edition
by William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, Steven H. Cady
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INDEX
- A
- ABP see annual budgeting process (ABP)
- Academy of Management (AOM), 12, 418
- Accelerated Culture Enhancement™ (ACE™), 59
- accountability, 230
- ACCROSS see Association for Creative Change in Religious and Other Social Systems (ACCROSS)
- achievement orientation, 72
- AC see appreciative coaching (AC)
- action, 274; based inquiry, 102, 103; planning, 148–152, 154, 168
- action research, 38–40, 48, 142–143, 264, 269, 364
- action research model (ARM), 213, 216, 223; evolution of, 50–51; Rothwell, 51–55; traditional, 47–48
- adaptability, 72, 96, 118
- adaptive capacity, 102, 104, 408
- adaptive thinking, 359
- affect-based trust, 392
- affiliation power, 381
- agency: culture of, 335–338; defined, 334; dialogic OD, 335; at every level, 335; inclusion and differences, 333, 334; need for, 336; power of, 333
- agendas, 274
- agility, 193–194, 249, 274, 364
- Ahmed, P. K., 119
- AI integration, and ODC: case examples, 363–364; courage and creativity, 364–365; discovery, 361; execution, 362; integration, 359–360; learning and capability building, 362–363; ODC as solution, 360–361; prioritization and change planning, 361–362
- AI see Appreciative Inquiry (AI); artificial intelligence (AI)
- AIS methodology see Appreciative Inquiry Summit (AIS) methodology
- Ajzen, I., 92
- Akdere, M., 318
- Alban, B., 31, 33, 38, 40, 43
- AL Hajri, A., 283
- Alpha change, 20
- Amodeo, M., 87
- analytic skills, 310
- Ancestry.com,
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