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Book SynopsisThis volume provides new conceptual insights, robust empirical studies, and thought-provoking chapters to help organizations improve health and wellbeing in society. Some chapters do this by addressing macro-level change: for example, consulting at the eco-system level and discussing the challenges entailed in developing intervention capabilities to impact highly interdependent eco-systems; or discussing the learning and experience of a large system transformation project conducted at a national level that had an impact on societal health and wellbeing. Other chapters extend theory and integrate perspectives that heretofore have remained separate, such as the 2017 Pasmore-Woodman Award winners, who provide an overview of their collaborative attempts at intervening and making a difference in organization studies. The richness of the diverse collaborative contributions to this volume by leading scholars and scholar-practitioners from around the globe provide an enriching and emerging body of knowledge.
Trade ReviewResearchers working in management, organization development, and organization studies in the US, Europe, South Africa, and China provide 10 chapters that discuss organization change and development to help organizations improve health and well-being in society. They address sustainable development, the use of 360-degree feedback for individual assessment and organization development, organizational renewal through entrepreneurial initiatives, the implications of the Theory of Planned Behavior for organization development and change in terms of carbon labeling of products as a strategy to go green, the application of the colors of change theory, concepts related to ideas of organizing intelligence, champions of change and organization development, system change at the national government level, and intervening in organizational studies using feminist theory and cultural studies. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsPrefaceConsulting to the Eco-system Level;
Susan Albers Mohrman and Stu Winby Enhancing 360 Feedback for Individual Assessment and Organization Development: Methods and Lessons from the Field;
Allan H. Church, Lorraine M. Dawson, Kira L. Barden, Christopher T. Rotolo, and Michael D. Tuller Organization Renewal through Entrepreneurial Initiatives: When the Seed Changes the Soil;
Tobias Fredberg and Johanna E. Pregmark A Test of the Theory of Planned Behavior: Influencing Behavioral Change to Go "Green";
Lu Zhang and Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi The Colors of Change – Revisited: Situating and Describing the Theory and Its Practical Applications;
Hans Vermaak and Leon de Caluwé Organizing Intelligence (OQ): The Source of Productive Workplaces;
Mark Addleson Champions of Change and Organization Development: A Return to Schön and Typology for Future Research and Practice;
Andani Thakhathi Agents of Change: Insights from Three Case Studies of Hospital Transformations;
Danielle A. Tucker and Stefano Cirella System Change at National Government Level;
Raymond Saner and Lichia Saner-Yiu Opening Spaces and Living in the Limits: Attempts at Intervening in Organization Studies;
Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich
