Recently added articles from Organization Development Journal:
Transforming Talk: The Interplay of Discourse, Power, and Change
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract This article presents ideas about language, power, and organizational change from the new academic field of Organizational Discourse. These ideas expand our understanding of the importance of conversation, context, and contention as critical variables in socially constructing ...
The Effect of Senior Management Participative Involvement and on Employee Perceptions
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract The imaginary manipulation of senior management's participative involvement with school employees was examined to determine employee perception of fairness. Attitudes toward senior management behavior differed significantly among employee groups. Qualitative analysis revealed ...
A Five Factor Framework for Coaching Middle Managers
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper describes a five factor framework for understanding the work of middle managers based on who they are interacting with, and the purpose of the interaction. Middle managers work with top managers, peers, and employees to either (1) share information and communicate or ...
Organizational Change Cynicism: A Review of the Literature and Intervention Strategies
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract This study provides an overview of the impact, both positive and negative, of employee cynicism on organizations. The authors focus specifically on empirical findings regarding the relationship between organizational change cynicism (OCC) and employee engagement (EE). Data from ...
Feedback and More Feedback
Oct 01, 2008; ... In the Spring and Summer issues of the Organization Development Journal I asked for feedback as to what you wanted to read about. This issue represents some of those recommendations. Keep the feedback and the articles coming in to odjed@yahoo.com. In this issue, two generations of ...
Mission Statement and Performance: An Evidence of "Coming of Age"
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract (Empirical Study) We elaborate on the role of mission statements (MS, MSs) in shaping mechanisms of organizational attributes intended to enhance performance. We argue that in the process of institutionalizing MSs, Israeli companies "come of age" and realize that such an ...
Passing the Test: Mastering the Hidden Agenda in Client Conversations
Jul 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT According to Control Mastery Theory, clients enter psychotherapy with an unconscious plan to disprove unhelpful beliefs adopted in childhood. Clients test the psychotherapist in the unconscious hope that the therapist will help to disprove these beliefs. A similar process ...
The Four C's of Emotion: A Framework for Managing Emotions in Organizations
Jul 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The concept of emotional intelligence has gained popularity in organizations today. Emotional intelligence focuses on individuals' recognition of, and response to, emotion. To help individuals better use their emotional intelligence capabilities, this paper offers a framework ...
Lessons for Managers and O.D. Professionals When Implementing Large-Scale Change
Jul 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Most of us know that managing successful large-scale change can be very difficult. The process can be slow, frustrating, and especially complex due to a great number of extraneous environmental factors surrounding the change project. Although the literature on large-scale change ...
Calendar of Events
Jul 01, 2008; ... May 4-9, 2008: New Jersey O.D. Network National Sharing Conference in New Jersey. (Dates and place have not been confirmed) Registration is free. For more information contact Ted Nguyen, RODP, Tel 732/309-6442. May 13-15, 2008: Linkage Best of O.D. Conference in Chicago ....
Mergers and Acquisitions in the Banking Industry: The Human Factor
Jul 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper attempts to chronicle the acquisition of a small community bank by a larger national bank that tried to enter the local market area. Unlike previously written papers that describe the performance of the firm after the acquisition, this paper focuses on the human ...
Effective 360° Management Enhancement: The Role of Style in Developing A Leadership Team
Jul 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT To succeed in the highly competitive world of today, business firms must be focused on the enhancement of 360° management and a commitment to organizational leadership team development. This article focuses on the case of InfoTech, Inc., an Atlanta, Georgia based firm, primarily ...
Leader Development: An Exploration of Sources of Learning
Jul 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Drawing from Conger's (1992) model, 25 commonly used approaches for leader development were complied in a survey. We investigated practitioner perspectives on the sources of learning that would most likely be used, are cost effective, provide the greatest learning for ...
Letter From The Editor
Jul 01, 2008; ... It is exciting to bring to you eight great articles of diverse interest in this issue! You may remember that I have been campaigning for articles on failures in O.D. projects, with the idea that we might learn more from our failures than our successes. Neil Boyd has taken up the ...
Hurricane Ivan: A Case Study of University Faculty in Crisis Management
Jul 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This study offers a unique perspective on crisis management in action. The eye of Hurricane Ivan (September 16, 2004) struck the city of Pensacola FL and inflicted major damage to the University of West Florida (UWF) campus just a couple of weeks after the start of the semester ....