Organization Development - a brief note

Organization Development (OD) offers a systematic approach to introduce organizational improvement using applied behavioral science; it has been around for quite a long time.

OD is an important subject in Organizational Behaviour and Organizational Change. A classical textbook on Organization Development (OD) is French and Bell (1990). French, Bell and Zawacki (editors) (1989) is a collection of OD-related articles of quite good quality. More updated references are Hardy (1994), Cummings and Worley (2001) and Bradford and Burke (editors) (2005).



References

1. Bradford, D.L and Burke, W.W. (editors) (2005) Reinventing Organization Development, Pfeiffer.
2. Cummings, T.G. and Worley, C.G. (2001) Organization Development and Change, South-Western College Publishing.
3. French W.L. and Bell, Jr. C. H. (1984) Organization Development, Prentice-Hall.
4. French, W.L., Bell, Jr. C.H., and Zawacki, R.A. (editors) (1989) Organization Development, BPI Irwin.
5. Hardy, C. (1994) "Power and Organizational Development: A Framework for Organizational Change", Journal of General Management Vol. 20(2) Winter, pp. 29-41.
6. Some OD resources in Internet: http://humanresources.about.com/od/orgdevelopment/Change_Management_and_Organization_Development.htm