Organization Development Classics: The Practice and Theory of Change--The Best of the Od Practitioner (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Tapa dura

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JUDITH C. HOY is president of her own firm, Learning Systems, through which she consults with a number of organizations, including NYNEX, AT&T, Con Edison, and the Girl Scouts. She is also an elected member and former chair of the board of trustees of the Organization Development Network.

DONALD F. VAN EYNDE and DIXIE CODY VAN EYNDE worked as coeditors of the Organization Development Practitioner from 1984 to 1988. Dixie was a member of the Organization Development Network's board of trustees during that same time, and Donald also served on the board from 1984 to 1996. Together they have raised three children while maintaining active professional lives.

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From the very first issue to the present, the Organization Development Practitioner has been the premier publication of the organization development profession. Its articles?works by such leading-edge practitioners as Burke, Beckhard, Shepard, and Weisbord ?have done no less than define organization development and envision its future. Many of these articles are now considered classics. And for the first time they are assembled here, all in one volume, for practitioners and aspirants to the field to study, learn from, and enjoy again and again.

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To discover where you're going, it helps to first know where you've been. And in the world of organization development, the surest road map is the Organization Development Practitioner.Since its debut in 1968, the OD Practitioner has been the premier forum in which the field's founders, innovators, and working professionals have shared their ideas, values, and experiences regarding the practice of a dynamic discipline few can accurately define. With every issue published, the profession chronicles its history, refines its standards, and imagines its future.The articles included in this compilation were culled from more than one hundred back issues of the OD Practitioner?articles that the editors felt represented the leading edge of the field, articles that have encouraged practitioners over the years to think broadly and deeply about the work they do and how they do it. Names of contributors are synonymous with the evolution of organization development itself: Richard Beckhard, Warner Burke, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Marvin Weisbord, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, and Geoffrey Bellman among them. Consequently, these writings represent the ?best of the best? that the publication has offered, and that is quite excellent indeed.In these pages, readers will gain a historical perspective on both the theory and work of organization development that will greatly inform their practice. They will discover reports and research that moved the field ahead. They will gain an appreciation of the foresight the field's founders and innovators had regarding OD's possibilities and usefulness. And they will benefit from a wealth of innovative thinking as relevant today as when originally published?thinking that will continue to impact the practice of organization development for many years to come.