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Organization Development and Consulting: Perspectives and Foundations

ISBN: 978-0-7879-4664-7
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288 pages
February 2002, Pfeiffer
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List of Tables and Figures.

Foreword to the Series.

Introduction to the Series.

Statement of the Board.

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

1. A Way In: Words, Values, and Management.

Words.

Values.

Management.

2. A Framework for OD Consultation.

The Nine Cs.

3. The Self.

The Levels of Self.

Revisiting the Johari Window by Joseph Luft.

Disclosure Exercise for the Johari Window by Barbara Brewer.

The Levels of the Self-Concept: A Summary.

Toward a Professional Self.

4. Working with the Client.

Some Thoughts About Technique.

The Client/Consultant Relationship.

The Client, Never Singular.

5. Rethinking the Issue of Change.

Not to Be Taken for Granted.

The Tao of Change.

Conceptual Models in Change.

What Is Complexity?

Strategy and Change.

OD Versus Change Management.

6. Changing Cultures: Concepts and Constraints.

Defining Culture.

Culture and OD.

Culture Change Dimensions.

Resisters to Culture Change.

7. Getting on with It: Entry,Contracting,and Engagement.

Entry.

Contracting.

Engagement.

Predicting Behavior and Visioning in OD.

Internal Versus External Consulting.

8. Diagnosis and Turbulence.

Creating Coherence and Focus in Diagnosis.

Modes and Strategies in Diagnosis.

9. Doing Something About It: The Intervention Concept.

Seeking Context.

OD Technologies and Their Classification.

OD Interventions or Help! What Do I Do Now?by GingerLapid-Bogda.

An OD Intervention Study.

10. Intervention Scenarios.

Company Been Around.

Company EC.

Company Oilstep.

Healthco.

NIFPY Company.

Company Stickums.

Car-Go Company.

Compufix.

Rivoli Rivals Inc.

Toys.

Company Coachwell.

Company Communi-Coop.

Strategic Planning and Participative Approaches at theU.S. AirForce Space and Missile Center by Cheryl Gitlin.

11. Reflections and Perspectives.

The Gospel Chorus by Jerry B. Harvey.

The Use of Music in T-Group Training: A Spiritual Interludeby NormaJean Anderson.

Putting Your Being First: The Spiritual Foundation for BecomingaMasterful OD Practitioner by Dean Anderson.

Of Time and the River by Robert Tannenbaum.

Returning to the Self: Two Views on Sensitivity Training.

12.Beyond the Horizon.

Re-Examining the Nine Cs.

Information Technology and Wisdom Management.

A Metaphor: The Search and the Ox.

Beyond the Ox.

Endnotes.

Bibliography.

About the Authors.

About the Editors.

Index.
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