part Part I: What OD Is, and Aspires To -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 -- chapter 2 Process Observation as the Key: Where and When to Practice Skills -- chapter 3 OD as Stool: Ruminations about a Metaphor -- chapter 4 Why OD? Putting Values in Their Prominent Place -- chapter 5 OD as...

Writing for organizational development consultants and managers, Golembiewski (political science and management, U. of Georgia) presents an overview of the field that revolves around multiple ironies of OD in practice, ironies that have at their core a central irony: though OD theory reflects major