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Leading Organizational Development and Change: Principles and Contextual Perspectives
This textbook covers the fundamentals of organizational development and change (ODC) theory while offering a comprehensive, structured, and systematic approach to guide change management strategies at the organization level. Itprovides an in-depth understanding of and the tools necessary for designing, diagnosing, implementing and evaluating organizational change interventions. Students will be exposed to case studies in ODC from selected international and Caribbean/Latin American organizations, demonstrating ODC in practice across a broad geographical context. This textbook, the first to offer a macro-level perspective of ODC, provides students with the tools needed to be successful in implementing change into today's organizations.
545 pages, Paperback
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April 13, 2021
2.5 stars, 3 stars if the book were to be on the receiving end of a very thorough copy edit
Overall, "leading organizational development and change" is a lot misleading, considering it's more of "high level overview of concepts involved in organizational development and change"
That aside, this is a very decent data dump of most of the concepts you'd want to talk about or utilize while working in or around this field. There's nothing here I didn't know already (sad) but it's fairly comprehensive. You could get to the same point as this by spending a week reading Forbes articles on development but alright.
I also really dislike how high level this book is. It covers 8 common frameworks for change management and gives brief descriptions but you get nothing about what those actually are. It's like someone decided to use a theory-only approach in a field that really needs practical application.
However, my largest issues with this book remain the editing problems.
- Typos. They are everywhere
- Layout. Was someone high? What? Are these margins for notes? For bad poetry? For writing in the practical elements of OD yourself? For breakfast????
-The constant switch between third party neutral descriptive and prescriptive language is annoying.
-Highlights are all over the place. You have instances where a box highlight calls out almost the same text as the paragraph above it. In other places, a paragraph highlights a section of text and then an identically formatted section of text below it is not put in a box.
-Other inconsistencies abound. E.g., number usage. Page 48 has an exceptional example with "56, 000 (space included) right next to 9500
-This is the single worst definition of Internet of Things I have ever read
- But why does the font weight keep changing?
-A good edit would have brought this down to 400 pages. A good layout update would bring it down to 300.
Overall, probably worth if you can pick it up for free and want a quick primer on all concepts OD related. Otherwise, skip, unless you really have to for class.
Overall, "leading organizational development and change" is a lot misleading, considering it's more of "high level overview of concepts involved in organizational development and change"
That aside, this is a very decent data dump of most of the concepts you'd want to talk about or utilize while working in or around this field. There's nothing here I didn't know already (sad) but it's fairly comprehensive. You could get to the same point as this by spending a week reading Forbes articles on development but alright.
I also really dislike how high level this book is. It covers 8 common frameworks for change management and gives brief descriptions but you get nothing about what those actually are. It's like someone decided to use a theory-only approach in a field that really needs practical application.
However, my largest issues with this book remain the editing problems.
- Typos. They are everywhere
- Layout. Was someone high? What? Are these margins for notes? For bad poetry? For writing in the practical elements of OD yourself? For breakfast????
-The constant switch between third party neutral descriptive and prescriptive language is annoying.
-Highlights are all over the place. You have instances where a box highlight calls out almost the same text as the paragraph above it. In other places, a paragraph highlights a section of text and then an identically formatted section of text below it is not put in a box.
-Other inconsistencies abound. E.g., number usage. Page 48 has an exceptional example with "56, 000 (space included) right next to 9500
-This is the single worst definition of Internet of Things I have ever read
- But why does the font weight keep changing?
-A good edit would have brought this down to 400 pages. A good layout update would bring it down to 300.
Overall, probably worth if you can pick it up for free and want a quick primer on all concepts OD related. Otherwise, skip, unless you really have to for class.
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