Organization Development

Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge had over 30 years' experience of delivering transformational change in a range of international organizations, including the BBC and Singapore's public sector agencies. A widely published author and international conference speaker, she was voted a Top Influential Thinker by HR Magazine in 2017 and 2019. Linda Holbeche is Co-Director of the Holbeche Partnership, Adjunct Professor at Imperial College London Business School, UK, and Visiting Professor at four other UK universities. She acts as consultant on OD, HR, Strategy and Leadership. She is Fellow of Roffey Park and the Institute of Employment Studies and was previously Director of Research and Policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Director of Leadership and Consultancy at the Work Foundation. She is the author of The Agile Organization, also published by Kogan Page.In 2021 she was named as one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers by HR Magazine.

Section - ONE: A practitioner’s guide for Organization Development;
Section - Section 1: OD history and theory overview;
Section - 01: What is OD? Its brief history;
Section - 02: Theories and practices of OD: a theory overview;
Section - Section 2: OD cycle of work;
Section - 03: Theories and practices of OD - the OD cycle and the entry and contracting phase;
Section - 04: Theories and practices of OD - the diagnostic phase;
Section - 05: Theories and practices of OD - the intervention phase;
Section - 06: Theories and practices of OD - the evaluation phase;
Section - Section 3: OD and change;
Section - 07: Living at the edge of chaos and change;
Section - 08: Back-room and front-room change matters;
Section - 09: Can behavioural change be made easy?;
Section - Section 4: The Organization Development practitioner;
Section - 10: The Organization Development practitioner;
Section - 11: Power and politics in Organization Development;
Section - Section 5: Additional thoughts;
Section - 12: What is an organization? What is organization health?;
Section - 13: How to build up your presence and impact on organization life;
Section - TWO: HR in relation to OD: theory and practice;
Section - 14: HR in relation to OD;
Section - 15: Organization Design;
Section - 16: Transformation and culture change;
Section - 17: Building organizational agility and resilience;
Section - 18: A culture conducive to innovation and learning;
Section - 19: Building the context for employee engagement;
Section - 20: Developing effective leadership;
Section - 21: Postscript – towards a better tomorrow;
Section - 22: References and further reading;
Section - 23: Index