Organization development interventions: executing effective organizational change

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Advance Organizer

Part I Foundations

Chapter 1 What is an OD Intervention ?

by William J. Rothwell

Chapter 2 Understanding Different OD Intervention Models

by Sohel M. Imroz

Chapter 3 Steps for Implementing the OD Intervention Model: From Entry to Separation

by Sohel M. Imroz

Part II Individual and Small Group Interventions

Chapter 4 Individual Interventions: Instrument-Guided Development

By Marie Carasco

Chapter 5 Individual Interventions: Executive and Management

By Behnam Bakhshandeh

Chapter 6 Individual Interventions: Mentoring and Sponsorship

By Leila Farzam and Jamie Campbell

Chapter 7 Small Group Interventions: Achieving Effectiveness through Interpersonal Training

By Marie Carasco

Chapter 8 Small Group Interventions: Teambuilding

By Behnam Bakhshandeh

Part III Intermediate and Large Interventions

Chapter 9 Intermediate-Size Interventions

By MiJin Lee and Behnam Bakhshandeh

Chapter 10 Large-Scale Interventions

By Ron Banerjee

Chapter 11 Industry-Wide Interventions

By Norm Jones

Chapter 12 Community Interventions

By Jamie Campbell

Part IV The Future

Chapter 13 The Future of OD Interventions

By William J. Rothwell

Chapter 14 What Unique Issues Surface When Implementing OD Interventions?

By William J. Rothwell

To effectively adapt and thrive in today’s business world, organizations need to implement effective organizational development (OD) interventions to improve performance and effectiveness at the individual, group, and organizational levels. OD interventions involve people, trust, support, shared power, conflict resolution, and stakeholders’ participation, just to name a few. OD interventions usually have broader scope and can affect the whole organization. OD practitioners or change agents must have a solid understanding of different OD interventions to select the most appropriate one to fulfill the client’s needs. There is limited precise information or research about how to design OD interventions or how they can be expected to interact with organizational conditions to achieve specific results.

This book offers OD practitioners and change agents a step-by-step approach to implementing OD interventions and includes example cases, practical tools, and guidelines for different OD interventions. It is noteworthy that roughly 65% of organizational change projects fail. One reason for the failure is that the changes are not effectively implemented, and this book focuses on how to successfully implement organizational changes.

Designed for use by OD practitioners, management, and human resources professionals, this book provides readers with OD basic principles, practices, and skills by featuring illustrative case studies and useful tools. This book shows how OD professionals can actually get work done and what the step-by-step OD effort should be. This book looks at how to choose and implement a range of interventions at different levels. Unlike other books currently available on the market, this book goes beyond individual, group, and organizational levels of OD interventions, and addresses broader OD intervention efforts at industry and community levels, too. Essentially, this book provides a practical guide for OD interventions. Each chapter provides practical information about general OD interventions, supplies best practice examples and case studies, summarizes the results of best practices, provides at least one case scenario, and offers at least one relevant tool for practitioners.