Organization Development Classics

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Organization Development Classics^
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... Tovább

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Organization Development Classics^
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.
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 have 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. Vissza