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The Handbook of Organization Development and Change
provides an essential learning tool for both
practitioners and students and presents the skills
and competencies of an effective OD practitioner.
It examines OD as both field and profession, and
considers its history, values and ethics, and
provides best practices, theories, methods, processes,
and applications—contributed by a veritable “who’s
who” of contributors. The collection of nearly
30 chapters offers models that build effective
organizations that can provide business, social,
environmental, and global sustainability. It outlines
the skills required to be an effective OD practitioner,
highlights the importance of values and ethics,
and methodically presents best practices, theories,
methods, processes, and application for a new
generation of OD practitioners and students faced
with constantly emerging issues and changes in
the workplace environment.
Michael Brazzel, Ph.D., is an organization
development consultant, economist, university
educator-researcher, and former manager in U.S.
government agencies. He has experience as an internal
and external OD consultant with consulting experience
in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. He
provides services in strategic organizational
change, team development, social justice and diversity,
strategic planning, conflict mediation, mission,
vision, values, executive coaching, and organization
assessment and design. He has held teaching and/or
research positions with the American University,
Cleveland State University, and Harvard-MIT Joint
Center for Urban Studies, Newton College, University
of North Carolina, University of Missouri, and
U.S. Air Force Academy. He holds a master’s degree
in human resource development from American University/NTL
Institute and a Ph.D. in economics from Tulane
University. He resides in Columbia, MD.
Brenda B. Jones, M.S. is an organizational
consultant with 20 years in OD as an internal
and external consultant. Her consulting work has
a national and international focus in organizational
development that covers a broad range of clients
in business, industry, government, health care,
education, and non-profit institutions. Her consulting
interests focus on organizational strategic change
processes in groups and large systems, leadership
development and executive coaching, individual
and group effectiveness, the development of consultants,
and managing culturally diverse organizations.
She is past chair and current member of the OD
Network, a member of the International Organization
Development Association, a member of the Gestalt
Institute of Cleveland and is faculty of the American
University/NTL graduate program for organization
development and co-chair of the Organization and
Systems Development Program at the Gestalt Institute
of Cleveland, among others. She resides in Columbia,
MD.
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