Cases in Organization Development and Change

Edited by D. D. Warrick and Anna Warrick

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This book offers interesting and practical cases from around the globe that provide applications of organization development and change (ODC) concepts. The cases address how to champion and manage change, improve individual, team, and organization performance, build strong organization cultures, and transform organizations. The cases are written by leading experts and practitioners in the field of ODC.

Keywords: Cases In Organization Development And Change; Championing Change; Managing Change; Improving Organization Health And Performance; Individual Interventions; Group Interventions; Organization Interventions; Diagnostic Od; Dialogic Od (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035340965
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Edgar H. Schein's contribution to organization development and change

David Coghlan

Ch 2 The need for change champions and for developing organization change champions throughout the organization

D.D. Warrick

Ch 3 Unexpected acts of leadership: changing how we change

Larry Peters, Greg Stephens and Hettie A. Richardson

Ch 4 Mistakes in managing strategic change

Sharon E. Norris and Tracy H. Porter

Ch 5 Leading change the wrong way and the right way: the importance of executive sponsership

David A. O’Brien

Ch 6 Contrasting diagnostic and dialogic assessments: approaches to assess reality

William J. Rothwell, Aileen G. Zaballero and Farhan Sadique

Ch 7 Blended OD interventions: a successful application in Hong Kong

Terence K.Y. Chung

Ch 8 Changing a school district through appreciative inquiry

Gervase R. Bushe

Ch 9 When best-laid plans falter: recalibrating organizational change

Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd

Ch 10 Can leaders change?

D.D. Warrick

Ch 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

Matthias Klein and Joachim Schwendenwein

Ch 12 A case of organization leadership development: from silos to a whole enterprise mindset

Philip Mirvis and Karen Ayas

Ch 13 Leading change: one leadership team's experience

Janet McCollum and Kenneth L. Murrell

Ch 14 Organization development engagement for Bechtel projects in Saudi Arabia

Fahad Alshawan, William J. Rothwell and Farhan Sadique

Ch 15 Building a high impact HR department in a progressive Chinese company: learning through observation

Joanne C. Preston and Kenneth W. Wall

Ch 16 Upstairs–Downstairs: a dialogic approach to intergroup teambuilding

Gervase R. Bushe

Ch 17 Improving project team communication through relational leading practices

Ronald W. Reidy and Jacqueline M. Stavros

Ch 18 The State of the Union: sustaining strategic change efforts in military organizations

Daniel E. Fredberg, Matthew D. Welch and Michael W. Byrnes

Ch 19 Seizing our destiny: reinventing a city during an economic downturn

David W. Stewart

Ch 20 Learning to SOAR in higher education

Zephyr L. Ethier and Jacqueline M. Stavros

Ch 21 Using OD to facilitate a corporate merger: saving a “marriage made in heaven” from a “honeymoon in hell”

Mitchell Lee Marks

Ch 22 How to create effective organizational design for newspapers transitioning into the digital world

Swantje Dake, Joachim Schwendenwein and Matthias Klein

Ch 23 Guidelines for understanding, building, and changing organization cultures

D.D. Warrick

Ch 24 Navigating culture change at Mid-Atlantic Regional University

Jeanne D. Maes and Jennifer C. Zoghby

Ch 25 Innovative organization culture building

Bill Connolly and D.D. Warrick

Ch 26 Building an organizational culture that supports agility through gamified experiential learning

Kristina Galvez and Herbert Nold

Ch 27 Change lessons in whole system transformation

Susan Donnan and Roland L. Sullivan

Ch 28 Toward interdependent leadership culture: transformation in KONE Americas

John B. McGuire and Charles J. Palus

Ch 29 Transforming organizations for greater inclusion, agency and betterment for all

Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz

Ch 30 Reclaiming organisational success through gradual, planned transformation

Linda Ronnie and Sarah Boyd

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