The Handbook of Organization Development reflects the field of organizational development's rapid growth and success since its inception 50 years ago into a far more diffuse and complex study than it was just a few decades ago.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction - Thomas Cummings Part I: The Nature of Organization Development CHAPTER 2 Contemporary View of Organization Development - W. Warner Burke CHAPTER 3 From Brainwashing to Organizational Therapy: An Essay on the Evolution of a Model of Change Dynamics - Edgar H. Schein CHAPTER 4 Learning in Organizations - Chris Argyris CHAPTER 5 Four General Strategies for Affecting Change in Human Systems - Robert E. Quinn and Scott Sonenshein CHAPTER 6 Where is the Beef? A Clinical Perspective on Organizational Consultation and ChangeInquiry - Manfred Kets de Vries and Katharina Balazs Part II. The Organization Process CHAPTER 7 The Practice of Organization Developmen - David W. Jamieson and Christopher G. Worley CHAPTER 8 Action Research and Organization Development - Peter Reason and Kate Louise McArdle CHAPTER 9 Organization Development Diagnosis - Craig C. Lundberg CHAPTER 10 The Conceptual Underpinnings of Intervening in Organizations - Jean M. Bartunek, John R. Austin, and Myeong-Gu Seo CHAPTER 11 Groups as Agents of Change - J. Richard Hackman and Amy C. Edmondson CHAPTER 12 Assessing Organization Development and Change Interventions - Richard W. Woodman, John B. Bingham, and Feirong Yuan Part III: Organization Interventions Human Process Interventions CHAPTER 13 Process Wisdom ? The Heart of Organization Development - Peter B. Vaill CHAPTER 14 Team Building - R. Wayne Boss and Mark L. McConkie CHAPTER 15 Large Group Interventions: Whole System Approaches to Organizational Change - Ronald E. Purser and Thomas J. Griffin Techno-Structural Interventions CHAPTER 16 Socio-Technical Systems: Designing and Managing Sustainable Organizations - Frans M. van Eijnatten, A.B. (Rami) Shani, and Myleen M. Leary CHAPTER 17 Musings on the Past and Future of Employee Empowerment - Gretchen M. Spreitzer and David Doneson CHAPTER 18 Organization Design - Jay R. Galbraith Human Resource Interventions CHAPTER 19 Strategic Human Resources Management - Edward E. Lawler III CHAPTER 20 The Role of Strategic Career Development in Achieving Organizational Effectiveness: A Multilevel Model - Ayse Karaevli and Douglas T. Hall Strategic Interventions CHAPTER 21 Integrating OD with Strategic Planning: Closing the Approach/Methods Gap - Larry Greiner CHAPTER 22 Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O - Michael Beer CHAPTER 23 A Process for Changing Organizational Culture - Kim Cameron CHAPTER 24 Organization Development at the Top of the Enterprise - David A. Nadler CHAPTER 25 The Order and Chaos of the Learning Organization - George Roth CHAPTER 26 Learning by Design: Key Mechanisms in Organization Development - A. B. (Rami) Shani and Peter Docherty CHAPTER 27 Designing Organizations to Lead with Knowledge - Susan A. Mohrman Part IV: Special Applications of Organization Development CHAPTER 28 The Status of OD in Public Administration: Another Case of Practice Being Ahead of Theory - Robert T. Golembiewski and Gene A. Brewer CHAPTER 29 Organization Development in Family-Owned and Family-Controlled Companies - Ernesto J. Poza CHAPTER 30 Sustainable Organizations - Dexter Dunphy CHAPTER 31 Organization Development for Social Change - L. David Brown, Mark Leach , and Jane G. Covey CHAPTER 32 Organization Development in Non Governmental Organizations: - Rajesh Tandon CHAPTER 33 Developing Interorganizational Networks - Rupert F. Chisholm CHAPTER 34 Transorganizational Development - David M. Boje and Mark E. Hillon CHAPTER 35 Reflections on Organization Development - Warren Bennis

"Cummings has assembled an organization development dream team to provide an overview of the field, fully mature as a discipline and practice, and ever evolving beyond its origins in psychology...Complete with a name and subject index, this volume is significant in relevance and gravitas, unveiling the hard-fought wisdom of the theorists and practitioners who shaped, and are shaped, by the dynamic work of managing change in organizations. A veritable one-stop resource on the topic of organization development—its history, process, practices, and pitfalls."