Organization development (OD) practitioners help companies manage change and align people, processes, and practices for success. This book offers information to gain an understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner. It is suitable for training managers wishing to add new knowledge and capabilities to their resume.

Provides theories, methodologies, and strategies for managing a process-centered organization, and offers nurse executives, managers, and other health care providers a reference for approaching, implementing, and evaluating their own processes. Part I examines the process-centered organization, with chapters on areas such as managing the process

Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types and arrives at some genuine insights into why some companies are healthier than others.

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation - new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. This book explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator.

Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. This book addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics.

Sets forth and applies a different language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. This book builds on cognitive psychology and anthropology to develop an audience-based theory of organizational categories. It applies this framework and the different language of theory building to organizational ecology.

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. It is also a call for reform.

Surviving isn't enough. Companies want to excel, and in order to do this they need to continually destroy and rebuild parts of their business. This is creative destruction. * Harvard Business Review - Top 10 Book of 2001 *

This is a comprehensive analysis of the present state of organization theory. The author traces the evolution and particularly the more recent history of the field, and its scope and content. He then considers the relevant literature organized by major issues and concepts.

Through anecdotes, case studies, research in a wide range of fields, and interviews with a diverse group of business leaders, experts, and everyday people on the front lines, this book explores how we think, how we behave, and how we govern ourselves to uncover the values-driven hows of 21st-century success.

Why do some companies buzz with energy, innovation and creativity? Why do these flares of activity occur in some companies and not in others? How can you avoid the Big Freeze and encourage these centres of creativity, action and energy? This book addresses these questions. It explores the conditions conducive to the creation of Hot Spots.

Bad Monkeys .

Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? This book reveals that progress and innovation may depend more on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality.

Explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections and examines the influence of money on modern medicine.

States that businesses need to take a lesson from the American military's fighter pilots. Analysing the work environment and attacking its centers of gravity in parallel, the author shows how to use the Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief-Win cycle to revolutionize chances for your business's success.

Explains the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, which enables a scholar to choose the most relevant level of interaction for a particular question. This book explains and illustrates how to use the IAD in the context of both field and experimental studies.

How can organizations handle the opportunities and threats posed by rapidly changing markets and external conditions? How can they improve their overall effectiveness? The Third Edition of Diagnosing Organizations contains up-to-date treatments of techniques and models for diagnosing how organizations deal with challenges like these.

Presents a riveting story and a researched case study that delves into the spectacularly impossible success of the shutdown and clean-up of Rocky Flats, one of the most notorious nuclear weapons plants in the United States.