Cases in organization development and change : building healthy, high performing organizations / edited by D.D. Warrick (professor of leadership and organization change and President's Teaching Scholar, College of Business, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) and Anna Warrick (vice president, The Warrick Agency Training and Development Company and assistant instructor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warrick, D. D., editor.

Warrick, Anna, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar leadership cases series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This book offers interesting and practical cases from around the globe that provide applications of organization development and change (ODC) concepts. The cases address how to champion and manage change, improve individual, team, and organization performance, build strong organization cultures, and transform organizations. The cases are written by leading experts and practitioners in the field of ODC. Key Features: - Interesting real world cases - Excellent resource for courses teaching ODC concepts to show how they can be applied - Valuable insights on organization development and change concepts - Excellent resource for any course that focuses on managing change - Cases include engaging discussion items and key lessons that can be learned Cases in Organization Development and Change: Building Healthy, High Performing Organizations is a valuable resource for educators, trainers, and students. It is also useful for leaders and employees committed to being successful and making a difference in today's times of dynamic change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface: A book for the times about a field for the times

Part I: Championing change

1. Edgar H. Schein's contribution to organization development and change / David Coghlan

2. The need for change champions and for developing organization change champions throughout the organization / D.D. Warrick

3. Unexpected acts of leadership: Changing how we change / Larry Peters, Greg Stephens and Hettie A. Richardson

4. Mistakes in managing strategic change / Sharon E. Norrisand Tracy H. Porter

Part II: Managing change

5. Leading change the wrong way and the right way: The importance of executive sponsorship / David A. O'Brien

6. Contrasting diagnostic and dialogic assessments: Approaches to assess reality / William J. Rothwell, Aileen G. Zaballero and Farhan Sadique

7. Blended OD interventions: A successful application in Hong Kong / Terence K.Y. Chung

8. Changing a school district through appreciative inquiry / Gervase R. Bushe

9. When best-laid plans falter: Recalibrating organizational change / Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd

Part III: Improving individual performance

10. Can leaders change? / D.D. Warrick

11. Working in swarms: How dynamic action learning helped to shift leadership at one of the leading premium car manufacturers in Germany to an agile, iterative approach / Mattias Klein and Joachim Schwendenwein

12. A case of organization leadership development: From silos to a whole enterprise mindset / Philip Mirvisand Karen Ayas

Part IV: Improving teamwork and building high-performance teams

13. Leading change: One leadership team's experience / Janet McCollum and Kenneth L. Murrell

14. Organization development engagement for bechtel projects in Saudi Arabia / Fahad Alshawan, William J. Rothwell and Farhan Sadique

15. Building a high impact hr department in a progressive Chinese company: Learning through observation / Joanne C. Preston and Kenneth W. Wall

16. Upstairs-downstairs: A dialogic approach to intergroup teambuilding / Gervase R. Bushe

17. Improving project team communication through relational leading practices / Ronald W. Reidy and Jacqueline M. Stavros

Part V: Improving organizations and building high-performance organizations

18. The state of the union: Sustaining strategic change efforts in military organizations / Daniel E. Fredberg, Matthew D. Welch, and Michael W. Byrnes

19. Seizing our destiny: Reinventing a city during an economic downturn / David W. Stewart

20. Learning to soar in higher education / Zephyr L. Ethier and Jacqueline M. Stavros

21. Using OD to facilitate a corporate merger: Saving a "marriage made in heaven" from a "honeymoon in hell" / Mitchell Lee Marks

22. How to create effective organizational design for newspapers transitioning into the digital world / Swantje Dake, Joachim Schwendenwein, and Matthias Klein

Part VI: Building and changing organization culture

23. Guidelines for understanding, building, and changing organization cultures / D.D. Warrick

24. Navigating culture change at Mid-Atlantic regional university / Jeanne D. Maes and Jennifer C. Zoghby

25. Innovative organization culture building / Bill Connolly and D.D. Warrick

26. Building an organizational culture that supports agility through gamified experiential learning / Kristina Galvez and Herbert Nold

Part VII: Transforming organizations

27. Change lessons in whole system transformation / Susan Donnan and Roland Sullivan

28. Toward interdependent leadership culture: Transformation in KONE Americas / John B. Mcguire and Charles J. Palus

29. Transforming organizations for greater inclusion, agency and betterment for all / Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz

30. Reclaiming organisational success through gradual, planned transformation / Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035340972 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.