MIOP: Weekly Readings

Philosophy of OD

• Appreciative inquiry: Organization development and the strengths revolution
• Organizational Development | Nature of OD | Objectives of OD | Characteristics of OD | OD Principle

Role of the practitioner

• Use of self as an OD practitioner
• What is the effect of observation by and OD practitioner on the OD practitioner's intended outcome of an OD intervention?

Grounding theories

• Kurt Lewin and Harwood studies: The Foundations of OD

Block's consulting process

• The Organization Development Process| OD Process Steps| Action Research Plan| Importance- OD Process

Entry

• Entry: Marketing and positioning organization development

Change theory

• The role of leadership to nurture employee championing behavior during organizational change: Does valence matter? An individual level analysis
• Theoretical perspective of change management.

Resistance to change

• Resistance to change: The rest of the story.
• Decoding resistance to change. (Click on "PDF Full Text" to view the article)

Sustaining change

• Sustaining organizational culture change in health systems.

Change models

• Successful organizational change: Integrating the management practice and scholarly literatures.

Collaboration

• Collaboration: A literature review.
• Destroying collaboration and knowledge sharing in the workplace: A reverse brainstorming approach.

Applying theory to practice

• Saving the "Subject" in HRM: Suggesting an interdependent relationship between theorist and practitioner.
• Organization studies as applied science: The generation and use of academic knowledge about organizations introduction to the special issue.

Contracting

• Entering, readiness, and contracting for dialogic organization development.

Ethics

• OD leads the way for ethical businesses.
• Influential managers in the public sector: Ho can OD prepare managers in the public sector for today's challenging working environment.

Values of OD

• Dialogic OD, diversity, and inclusion: Aligning mindsets, values, and practices.

Self-reflection as an ongoing process

• Self-reflection, growth goals, and academic outcomes: A qualitative study.
• The relevance of reflection: An empirical examination of the role of reflection in ethic of caring, leadership, and psychological well-being.

"Soft skills" are not soft

• Critical soft skills to achieve success in the workplace.
• The big impact of soft skills in today's workplace.
• Demand for soft skills in the workplace.

Interpersonal effectiveness

• The impostor phenomenon revisited: Examining the relationship between workplace impostor thoughts and interpersonal effectiveness at work.
• The effects of emotion recognition training on interpersonal effectiveness.
• Integrating the arts into organization development: Using improvisational theatre to enhance personal and interpersonal effectiveness at work.

Data gathering

• Generating knowledge that drives change.

Team building

• Systematic review of team building interventions.
• Team development interventions: Evidence-based approaches for improving teamwork.

Interventions: individual, group, organization

• An examination of two positive organizational interventions: For whom do these interventions work? 
• Rethinking “organizational effectiveness” as a core premise of organization development: Beyond narrow organizational interests and towards wider soulful interventions.
• Evaluating the Linkage Between Employee Training Programmes and Prosocial Organizational Behavior.

RFPs

• How to write and effective RFP

Listening

• The importance of listening in communication.
• The understudied nature of listening to interpersonal communication: Introduction to a special issue.
• Expanding evaluation to progress strategic communication: Beyond message tracking to open listening.

Critical thinking

• Critical Thinking
• Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills.

Problem solving

• Problem solving toolbox: Problems solving methodologies.

Consulting and being a consultant (what does it mean)

• If I knew then...
• Attitudes about the Field of Organization Development 20 Years Later: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.
• The Rise and Fall of the Growth of Organization Development: What Now? 
• The concept of "client" from a process consultation perspective A guide for change agents. 

Giving feedback

• Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback: A Review Article and How-To Guide. 

Questions to consider: 

• How does strategic development in OD parallel the development of IOP's shift to strategic planning? 
• Is there a second generation to IOP, too?

Podcasts

• Academy of human resources development masterclass.
• Honest HR sponsored by SHRM.

Movie

•  T he Man in the Gray Flannel Suit in the executive suite: American corporate movies in the 1950s.