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The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives, 2nd Edition
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The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives, 2nd Edition

by Brenda B. Jones, Michael Brazzel
March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
21h 1m
English
Pfeiffer
Content preview from The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREEA LEWINIAN LENS ON OD’S “EMERGING NOW”

Lennox E. Joseph and Jean E. Neumann

The OD field has witnessed a remarkable expansion in its approximately sixty-year history. It has grown from a series of experiments and an area of inquiry, through its childhood as a field of study and a discipline worthy of note into its young adulthood as a practice of professional services. Now in its adulthood as a reasonably established industry, it carries its own share of methodologies, success stories, heroic tales, and credentialing issues. Attempts to bring increased thoughtfulness to this scenario entail a deep understanding of the principles that undergird OD.

Much has been said about Kurt Lewin (1890–1947): social psychologist, scientist, ...

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