This textbook covers the fundamentals of organizational development and change (ODC) theory while offering a comprehensive, structured, and systematic approach to guide change management strategies at the organization level. It provides an in-depth understanding of and the tools necessary for designing, diagnosing, implementing and evaluating organizational change interventions. Students will be exposed to case studies in ODC from selected international and Caribbean/Latin American organizations, demonstrating ODC in practice across a broad geographical context. This textbook, the first to offer a macro-level perspective of ODC, provides students with the tools needed to be successful in implementing change into today's organizations.

I Overview of Organizational Development

1. Introduction to Organizational Development and Change
2. Individual-Level OD Interventions
3. Group-Level OD Interventions
4. Foundation Organizational Development and Change (ODC) Models
5. The ODC Practitioner
6. Organizational Change Leadership
II Initiating the Organizational Development Process
7. Entering into the Practice of OD
8. Diagnosis of OD Issues
9. Data Collection for OD
10. Data Analysis Tools and Feedback
III Developing and Implementing Organizational-Level Interventions
11. Organizational-Level Theories
12. Techno-Structural Interventions: Restructuring
13. Techno-Structural Interventions: Downsizing
14. Techno-Structural Interventions: Reengineering
15.Strategic Interventions: Transformational Change
16. Strategic Interventions: Trans-Organizational Change
17. Strategic Interventions: Continuous Change
IV Evaluation and the Way Forward
18. Evaluation of Organizational Development
19. Trends in OD
20. The Future of OD
V International and Caribbean/Latin American Case Studies in Organizational Development.- 21. Case Study Teaching and Learning
22. Case Studies on Techno-Structural Interventions
23. Case Studies on Strategic Interventions
VI The OD Practitioner's Toolkit.- 24. Success Factors for Effective Organizational Development in Practice.