This webpage will provide a variety of links on key resources in OD. They include topical listing of OD articles, assessment & diagnostic information, intervention techniques, case studies, associations, journals and listservs, and sample consulting organizations.

Composite Resources-- These are sites with large collections of articles, links, or extensive writing related to OD.
• McNamara's Management Library-- Organizational Change will be the most useful category, but browse his other listings
• OD & Management-- online book
• Working in Groups-- online book
• BRINT-- enormous linkage; check knowledge management and biztech for more listings
• I/O Psych Resources
• MN OD Network-- large collection of papers
• Knowledge Transfer Center-- downloadable articles
• MIT working papers on new organizations-- 36 papers
• Student Handbook for a course in OD--
• Big Dog's Leadership Site--
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OD Techniques--
• Basic OD Interventions-- brief listing
Links from other web sites
• Viable System Model for understanding organizations
• Change management toolkit & Library
• Mediation Links
• Society for Organizational Learning. MIT resource on articles. Check research and knowledge base.

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Listservs.These are online discussion forums comprised of people, usually professionals, with  interests in this specialty. There is no cost to joining a listserv group. Questions can be posted to members who then respond with comments, ideas, and additional questions. I suggest you read e-mail postings for a few days to get a sense of the form and format for interactions. Then post. If you haven't tried using a Listserv for gathering information, try it! Be sure to unsubscribe at the end of the term.

• Learning-Org. (Forum related to Peter Senge's systems concepts)
• ODNet (Forum for OD practitioners)
• OD related lists
• TeamNet (Forum for specialists in team work, consultation and training)

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Associations
 

• ODNet-- National organization but with limited articles available to nonmembers
• Regional OD Networks-- many of these have good online articles
• MNODNet-- good library of available articles
• Employee Involvement Association
• Robert Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
• Industrial Relations Research Association
• Society for Organizational Learning
• International OD Netowrk listing--

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OD Profession--Competencies & Skills
 
• OD Competency and Skill List
• Entry Level Competencies in OD
• International OD Code of Ethics--
• Jobs in OD-- what do employers want?
• OD Credo
• International OD Ethics/Credo
• OD Skills List (more than you thought!)

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Articles

 
Primer of Innovation Diffusion Theory.
The Way of Strategy--managing organizational change chapter
Executive Coaching Handbook-- complete online handbook
Overview of OD--
William Bridges on change management-- collection of brief articles
Strategic leadership and decision making--National Defense University overview
Change slide shows. Collection of powerpoint slides on various topics: empowerment, change agent tactics and stages of change, etc.
OD Articles from Oregon ODNet--
ChangeCraft--online book for change agents
Change Drivers for Teams
Determinants of structure (organizational structure factors)
Appreciative Inquiry Intervention

Change has Changed.
Ideas on Teams and Teamwork. Collection of quotes and brief reviews.
The Change Project. Joe Flower's papers; Eastern thought applied to OD
Force-Field Analysis (brief description of Lewin's technique)
Change Agent chacteristics from career aptitude profiles
OD & Change article library-- 22 good papers
High Performance Teams.
Self Directed Work Team Site
Team analysis worksheet using SWOT
Teamzone. Collections of articles
FAQ on Organizational Change
What do OD practitioners know about managing change?
Brief articles related to OD
Review of  Senge's Fifth Discipline
Meaning at Work
Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
High performance problem solving
Organization & management theory (collection of sites)
CSWT collected papers on teams
Six Management Concepts (different approach to conceptualizing basic practices)
Organizational Universe Systems. Collection of free articles from John Jones. Brief OD Links. Brief collection of papers on OD.
Interview with Robert Blake on the Grid System
Deconstruction of assumptions regarding management conflict
Bouncing Back (personal and organizational resiliency)
Has downsizing gone too far?
Ideas on teams and teamwork (quotes from 40 books)
Kurt Lewin's Theory (paper)
Corporate culture (Hofstede's dimensions applied to organizations)
Understanding organizations as learning systems
Organizational learning--What is new? (Ed Schein article)
Learning Histories: Using documentation to assess and facilitate org. learning.
Career Anchors (implications for 21st century career development)
Companies: What are they? (lecture by Arie de Geus)
Learning Consortia: Creating parallel organizations (Schein)
Serendip
The Beer Game (management flight simulator for training)
Organizational culture
New paradigm: Org. Theory, L.O. and Org. Learning
Change and Its Management (Overview of OD approach)
Future 2020 Organization (Delphi survey of future organization needs)
Creativity HomePage (lateral thinking, thinker gallery, idea recording, etc.)
Conflict Resolution Center International Library Search
Marshall School of Business (OB and conflict outline)
OD Info on the Net (list of links)
Organizational Universe Systems (collection of papers)
Book reviews
Internal consulting skills
Brief articles related to OD
Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer search for instruments & books
Learning Histories of organizations to aid facilitation
Rogers' model of the diffusion of innovation  (summary of his book)
Rick Maurer articles on change
Criticisms of Teams
Metaphors for change-- how our framing creates our choices

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Journals (Online). In some cases only abstracts are available. You can usually order them through Minitex at the College Library.

Leadership & Organization Development Journal
Current Research in Social Psychology
Journal of Innovative Management
Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory

Team Performance Management Journal
Entrepreneur Magazine Online   (has keyword search feature)
Fast Company (searchable articles)
Executive Insights (online articles)
OD & Change Newsletters-- online by date

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Inventories. These are online self assessment instruments that are useful in demonstrating how such constructs are measured. While interesting, not all of these instruments have high validity or reliability reported, and you should be cautious in their use.
• OD Skills Inventory
• The Margerison-McCann Team Management Index
• Roadmap Diagnostics (expert system for organizational diagnostics; includes online book)
• Assessment Instruments (large listing)
• Organizational Climate Survey (see next page for sample report)
• Sample org climate questionnaire
• Sample organizational climate report
• OD Online Personality Profiler (it requests personal info)
• Organizational Diagnostics Online
• Rate your readiness to change
• Merit Metrics Measurement
• Job Satisfaction Survey
• Change Management Survey. Broad-range brief questionnaire.
• Organizational Climate Survey. Nice example of format
• Organizational Climate Analysis. A broader survey of climate

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Sample OD Consulting Organizations

• Chaudron Associates.
• The OD Institute
• OD Practitioners & Organizations List
• Groupware Central
• Center for the Study of Work Teams
• Third Party Consulting
• Moomaugh Consulting
• Organized Change Consultancy

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Bibliographies
• Action research
• Annoted survey of systems dynamics books

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Cases & Applications
• Cases in OD-- collection of case links
• The Learning Initiative at the AutoCo Delta Assembly Plant
• Systemic Creation of Organizational Anxiety (semiconductor industry)
• The learning initiative at Electro Components
• Organizational learning at EDS
• Swedish Natural Step: sustainable transformation
• OD in Levis--case example

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Links to related Swenson Pages
• Leadership Resources. A collection of links and online resources for leadership, originally collected for MGT477 & MGT537 Leadership.
• Team Resources. Collection of links and online resources originally collected for MGT438 Team Management and MGT530 Group Dynamics.
• Systems Theory. Collection of links and online resources originally collected for MGT590 Systems Theory.
• The Manager's Library. One stop shopping for CSS management students conducting online research.
• Culture Page. Links and papers on cultural differences

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Last updated 1-8-01

David X. Swenson Ph.D.