Organization Development and Transformation: Managing Effective Change

Business & Money

French, Wendell

Bell, Cecil

Zawacki, Robert

Processes & Infrastructure

McGraw/Hill/Irwin

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

Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes. The authors present a concise and comprehensive exposition of the theory, practice, and research related to organization development. The Sixth Edition reflects the most recent developments, advances and expansions, and research in the area of OD. KEY TOPICS: Adds and updates new material to provide the most current information available. Strengthens coverage by adding new interventions and new material. Offers a more lively tone and writing style. Emphasizes the everchanging paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail. Sets discussions in the rapidly-evolving contexts of globalization, intensified competition and collaboration, Total Quality Management (TQM) and large-scale organizational change. Provides excellent coverage of the organization and its dynamics for managers and professionals.

Organization Development: Behavioral Science Interventions for Organization Improvement,6th Edition

Management & Leadership

Pearson

Organization Development and Transformation is a paperback collection of 46 readings that focuses on how people and organizations and people in organizations function, and how to make them function better. This new edition includes coverage of classic OD articles, new cutting edge coverage of topics such as self-directed teams, centers of excellence and learning organizations.

Zawacki, Robert A.

Bell, Cecil H

Real Estate

The Personnel Management Process

Houghton/Mifflin

Ideal for management majors who plan to become HRM professionals, this highly accessible text presents a conceptual model of the field?placing HRM in the overall context of business management. Students gain a broad, practical understanding of how HRM policies affect the workplace from productivity, quality, and customer service to employee morale. French addresses timely issues changing the current role of HRM, including international topics, the Internet, emerging legal concerns, social responsibility, and performance appraisal.
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<li>The text covers several new discussion points, including worldwide terrorism, white-collar unionization, office/factory romances, corporate universities, "cash balance" plans, peer-to-peer counseling, and religious harassment.</li>
<li>Comprehensive cases cover recent developments and issues based on well-known sources such as Business Week, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Ethics, and a number of related journals.</li>
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Human Resources Management

South-Western College Pub.

Ideal for management majors who plan to become HRM professionals, this highly accessible text presents a conceptual model of the field, placing HRM in the overall context of business management. Students gain a broad, practical understanding of how HRM policies affect the workplace--from productivity, quality, and customer service to employee morale. French addresses timely issues changing the current role of HRM, including international topics, technology and the Internet, social responsibility, and performance appraisal. Several pedagogical features reinforce the author's conceptual approach to human resources management. Chapter-ending Experiential Exercises promote group discussion and role playing through real-world challenges such as discrimination laws, safe/healthy work environments, and negotiation skills. Comprehensive Cases--taken from respected publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal--explore contemporary issues in HRM like the new face of organized labor and the implications of an aging workforce.

Human Resources

Cengage Learning'

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