Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452291578 ISBN 13: 9781452291574

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2014

Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Third Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Incorporating organization development ethics and values into each chapter, author Donald L. Anderson provides discussion of real-world application of these theoretical ideas to help students face today’s challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and changing expectations in the contemporary workforce.

About the Author:

Donald L. Anderson, PhD, University of Colorado, teaches organization development and organization design at the University of Denver. He is the author of the text Organization Development (4th ed., Sage Publications, 2017) and editor of Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change (2nd ed., Sage Publications, 2017). He is a practicing organization development consultant and has consulted internally and externally with a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions. Dr. Anderson’s research interest is in discourse in organizational and institutional settings, and his studies of organizational discourse and change have been published in journals such as the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Gestion, and Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Dr. Anderson is a member of the Academy of Management and serves on the editorial board of the journal Management Communication Quarterly as well as SAGE’s Business and Management Advisory Board.

 

Review:

"[Organization Development, The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Third Edition] is very organized and the case studies help reinforce the concepts learned in class. It is a great book!"--Helen Muyia (10/07/2013)