Organization Development and Transformation or Communicating in Small Groups

Organization Development and Transformation: Managing Effective Change

Author: Wendell French

Organization Development and Transformation is a paperback collection of 46 readings that focuses on how people function with and within organizations, and how to make the working relationship function best. This edition includes coverage of classic OD articles, coverage of topics such as self-directed teams, centers of excellence, and learning organizations

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Mapping the territory	1
1	What is organization development?	12
2	A history of organization development	16
3	General strategies for effecting changes in human systems	40
4	Toward third-wave managing and consulting	63
5	Organization development and transformation	80
6	Most influential management books of the 20th century	101
Pt. 2	Foundations of organization development and transformation	105
7	The field approach : culture and group life as quasi-stationary processes	112
8	Two-person disputes	114
9	Intervention theory and method	115
10	Intergroup problems in organizations	119
11	Organizational culture	125
12	Sociotechnical system principles and guidelines : past and present	140
Pt. 3	Fundamental interventions	153
13	Methods for finding out what's going on	162
14	Operation KPE : developing a new organization	172
15	When power conflicts trigger team spirit	175
16	Strategies for improving headquarters - field relations	183
17	Organization mirror interventions	187
18	The confrontation meeting	189
19	Parallel learning structures	197
20	Survey-guided development : using human resources measurement in organizational change	203
Pt. 4	Cutting-edge change strategies	213
21	Successful self-directed teams and planned change : a lot in common	216
22	Appreciative inquiry : the new frontier	223
23	Future search : acting on common ground in organizations and communities	233
24	Meeting the global competitive challenge : building systems that learn on a large scale	243
25	Centers of excellence : empowering people to manage change	269
26	Building a learning organization	274
27	Fast cycle OD : "faster, better, cheaper" catches up to organization development	288
Pt. 5	Implementation guidelines and issues	295
28	Creating readiness for organizational change	298
29	Defining a political model of organizations	313
30	Functional roles of group members	318
31	Choosing the depth of organizational intervention	325
32	Rules of thumb for change agents	336
33	Shining a new light on organizational change : improving self-efficacy through coaching	342
Pt. 6	Examples and special situations	349
34	Creating successful organization change	352
35	Managing organizational transformations : lessons from the veterans health administration	363
36	Innovation in Whole-Scale change : past, present and future	376
37	Organization development in the entrepreneurial firm	386
38	Are organizational development interventions appropriate in turnaround situations?	401
Pt. 7	Challenges and opportunities for the future	411
39	An interview with Peter Vaill	414
40	Ethics and organizational change	422
41	Powering up teams	433
42	Managing discontinuities : the emerging challenges	449
43	Seven practices of successful organizations	460
44	The new agenda for organization development	481

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Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices

Author: Steven A Beeb

As the best-selling text in the field of small-group communication, Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices, by Steven A. Beebe and John T. Masterson, has provided readers with a wealth of relevant, practical, and up-to-date information for over a decade and a half. Balancing theoretical perspectives with numerous application and skill activities, the new edition features the following: an emphasis on group communication competency, expanded coverage of fantasy themes and symbolic convergence theory, how to avoid reasoning fallacies when solving problems and making decisions, integrated group problem solving and tools for structuring problem solving and decision making in groups and teams, how to deal with difficult people when managing conflict, the latest research conclusions about leadership and teams, new principles and frameworks for organizing any meeting, and references to total quality management and the role of collaboration in the work force.