TY - GEN AU - French, Wendell L. AU - Bell, Cecil. AU - Zawacki, Robert A. TI - Organization development and transformation : : managing effective change SN - 9780070603943 U1 - 658 PY - 0000///New Delhi CY - 2006 PB - Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company KW - Organizational change N2 - Mapping the territory: What is organization development? ; A history of organization development ; General strategies for effecting changes in human systems ; Toward third-wave managing and consulting ; Organization development annd transformation ; Most influential management books of the 20th century -- Foundations of organization development transformation : The field approach: culture and group life as quasi-stationary processes ; Two-person disputes ; Intervention theory and method ; Intergroup problems in organizations ; Organizational culture ; Sociotechnical system principles and guidelines: past and present -- Fundamental interventions: Methods for finding out what's going on ; Operation KPE: developing a new organizationn ; When power conflicts trigger team spirit ; Strategies for improving headquarters-field relations ; Organization mirroe interventions ; The confrontation meeting ; Parallel learning structures ; Survey-guided development: using human resources measurement in organizational change -- Cutting-edge change strategies: Successful self-directed teams and planned change: a lot in common ; Appreciative inquiry: the new frontier ; Future search: acting on common ground in organizations and communities ; Meeting the global competitive challenge: building systems that learn on a large scale ; Centers of excellence: empowering people to manage change ; Building a learning organization ; Fast cycle OD: "Faster, better, cheaper" catches up to organization development -- Implementation guidelines and issues: Creating readiness for organizational change ; Defining a political model of organizations ; Functional roles of group members ; Choosing the depth of organizational intervention ; Rules of thumb for change ; Shining a new light on organizational change: improving self-efficacy through -- Examples and specail situations: Creating successful organization change ; Managing organizational transformations: lessons from the veterans health administrationn ; Innovation in whole-scale change: past, present and future ; Organization development interventions appropriate in turnaround situations? -- Challenges and opportunities for the future: An interview with Peter Vaill ; Ethics and organizational change ; Powering up teams ; Managing discontinuties: the emerging challenges ; Seven practices of successful organizations ; The new agenda for organization development ER -