Cases in Organization Development and Change
Cases in Organization Development and Change
Building Healthy, High Performing Organizations
Warrick, Anna; Warrick, D. D.
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
04/2026
344
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Inglês
9781035340965
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Preface: a book for the times about a field for the times xxv
PART I CHAMPIONING CHANGE
1 Edgar H. Schein's contribution to organization development and
change 2
David Coghlan
2 The need for change champions and for developing organization
change champions throughout the organization 11
D.D. Warrick
3 Unexpected acts of leadership: changing how we change 28
Larry Peters, Greg Stephens and Hettie A. Richardson
4 Mistakes in managing strategic change 40
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 47
David A. O'Brien
6 Contrasting diagnostic and dialogic assessments: approaches to
assess reality 53
William J. Rothwell, Aileen G. Zaballero and Farhan Sadique
7 Blended OD interventions: a successful application in Hong Kong 67
Terence K.Y. Chung
8 Changing a school district through appreciative inquiry 74
Gervase R. Bushe
9 When best-laid plans falter: recalibrating organizational change 86
Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd
PART III IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE
10 Can leaders change? 93
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 103
Mattias Klein and Joachim Schwendenwein
12 A case of organization leadership development: from silos to a whole
enterprise mindset 112
Philip Mirvisand Karen Ayas
PART IV IMPROVING TEAMWORK AND BUILDING HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS
13 Leading change: one leadership team's experience 122
Janet McCollum and Kenneth L. Murrell
14 Organization development engagement for Bechtel projects in Saudi
Arabia 132
Fahad Alshawan, William J. Rothwell and Farhan Sadique
15 Building a high impact HR department in a progressive Chinese
company: learning through observation 146
Joanne C. Preston and Kenneth W. Wall
16 Upstairs-Downstairs: a dialogic approach to intergroup teambuilding 154
Gervase R. Bushe
17 Improving project team communication through relational leading
practices 164
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 173
Daniel E. Fredberg, Matthew D. Welch, and Michael W. Byrnes
19 Seizing our destiny: reinventing a city during an economic downturn 187
David W. Stewart
20 Learning to SOAR in higher education 194
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" 206
Mitchell Lee Marks
22 How to create effective organizational design for newspapers
transitioning into the digital world 213
Swantje Dake, Joachim Schwendenwein, and Matthias Klein
PART VI BUILDING AND CHANGING ORGANIZATION CULTURE
23 Guidelines for understanding, building, and changing organization
cultures 226
D.D. Warrick
24 Navigating culture change at Mid-Atlantic Regional University 238
Jeanne D. Maes and Jennifer C. Zoghby
25 Innovative organization culture building 243
Bill Connolly and D.D. Warrick
26 Building an organizational culture that supports agility through
gamified experiential learning 249
Kristina Galvez and Herbert Nold
PART VII TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS
27 Change lessons in whole system transformation 261
Susan Donnan and Roland Sullivan
28 Toward interdependent leadership culture: transformation in KONE
Americas 269
John B. McGuireand Charles J. Palus
29 Transforming organizations for greater inclusion, agency and
betterment for all 284
Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz
30 Reclaiming organisational success through gradual, planned
transformation 294
Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd
Preface: a book for the times about a field for the times xxv
PART I CHAMPIONING CHANGE
1 Edgar H. Schein's contribution to organization development and
change 2
David Coghlan
2 The need for change champions and for developing organization
change champions throughout the organization 11
D.D. Warrick
3 Unexpected acts of leadership: changing how we change 28
Larry Peters, Greg Stephens and Hettie A. Richardson
4 Mistakes in managing strategic change 40
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 47
David A. O'Brien
6 Contrasting diagnostic and dialogic assessments: approaches to
assess reality 53
William J. Rothwell, Aileen G. Zaballero and Farhan Sadique
7 Blended OD interventions: a successful application in Hong Kong 67
Terence K.Y. Chung
8 Changing a school district through appreciative inquiry 74
Gervase R. Bushe
9 When best-laid plans falter: recalibrating organizational change 86
Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd
PART III IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE
10 Can leaders change? 93
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 103
Mattias Klein and Joachim Schwendenwein
12 A case of organization leadership development: from silos to a whole
enterprise mindset 112
Philip Mirvisand Karen Ayas
PART IV IMPROVING TEAMWORK AND BUILDING HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS
13 Leading change: one leadership team's experience 122
Janet McCollum and Kenneth L. Murrell
14 Organization development engagement for Bechtel projects in Saudi
Arabia 132
Fahad Alshawan, William J. Rothwell and Farhan Sadique
15 Building a high impact HR department in a progressive Chinese
company: learning through observation 146
Joanne C. Preston and Kenneth W. Wall
16 Upstairs-Downstairs: a dialogic approach to intergroup teambuilding 154
Gervase R. Bushe
17 Improving project team communication through relational leading
practices 164
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 173
Daniel E. Fredberg, Matthew D. Welch, and Michael W. Byrnes
19 Seizing our destiny: reinventing a city during an economic downturn 187
David W. Stewart
20 Learning to SOAR in higher education 194
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" 206
Mitchell Lee Marks
22 How to create effective organizational design for newspapers
transitioning into the digital world 213
Swantje Dake, Joachim Schwendenwein, and Matthias Klein
PART VI BUILDING AND CHANGING ORGANIZATION CULTURE
23 Guidelines for understanding, building, and changing organization
cultures 226
D.D. Warrick
24 Navigating culture change at Mid-Atlantic Regional University 238
Jeanne D. Maes and Jennifer C. Zoghby
25 Innovative organization culture building 243
Bill Connolly and D.D. Warrick
26 Building an organizational culture that supports agility through
gamified experiential learning 249
Kristina Galvez and Herbert Nold
PART VII TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS
27 Change lessons in whole system transformation 261
Susan Donnan and Roland Sullivan
28 Toward interdependent leadership culture: transformation in KONE
Americas 269
John B. McGuireand Charles J. Palus
29 Transforming organizations for greater inclusion, agency and
betterment for all 284
Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz
30 Reclaiming organisational success through gradual, planned
transformation 294
Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd