Leading organizational development and change: principles and contextual perspectives

This textbook covers the fundamentals of organizational development and change (ODC) theory while offering a comprehensive, structured, and systematic approach to guide change management strategies at the organization level. It provides an in-depth understanding of and the tools necessary for designing, diagnosing, implementing and evaluating organizational change interventions. Students will be exposed to case studies in ODC from selected international and Caribbean/Latin American organizations, demonstrating ODC in practice across a broad geographical context. This textbook, the first to offer a macro-level perspective of ODC, provides students with the tools needed to be successful in implementing change into today's organizations.

I Overview of Organizational Development -- 1. Introduction to Organizational Development and Change -- 2. Individual-Level OD Interventions -- 3. Group-Level OD Interventions -- 4. Foundation Organizational Development and Change (ODC) Models -- 5. The ODC Practitioner -- 6. Organizational Change Leadership -- II Initiating the Organizational Development Process -- 7. Entering into the Practice of OD -- 8. Diagnosis of OD Issues -- 9. Data Collection for OD -- 10. Data Analysis Tools and Feedback -- III Developing and Implementing Organizational-Level Interventions -- 11. Organizational-Level Theories -- 12. Techno-Structural Interventions: Restructuring -- 13. Techno-Structural Interventions: Downsizing -- 14. Techno-Structural Interventions: Reengineering -- 15. Strategic Interventions: Transformational Change -- 16. Strategic Interventions: Trans-Organizational Change -- 17. Strategic Interventions: Continuous Change -- IV Evaluation and the Way Forward -- 18. Evaluation of Organizational Development -- 19. Trends in OD -- 20. The Future of OD -- V International and Caribbean/Latin American Case Studies in Organizational Development -- 21. Case Study Teaching and Learning -- 2…