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I'm beginning to prepare for two classes, one in organizational change for
junior-senior business students that will integrate the micro and macro
view without repeating material students have had in basic management
classes. The second class is for an MBAs in organizational
development and change. The MBA students are working professionals and
have 4-5 years managerial experience.

If you are willing to share materials, syllabi or 'tried and true'
foundation concepts that have been successful, I would be most
appreciative! Please send it directly to me at:

pmfandt@u.washington.edu

Thank you, Patricia Fandt
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Take a look at http://home.att.net/~nickols/change.htm. It has quite a bit
of information that your students might find useful.

At 12:42 AM 02/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:46:10 -0800
>From: Patricia Fandt <pmfandt@u.washington.edu>
>Subject: classes in change
>
>I'm beginning to prepare for two classes, one in organizational change for
>junior-senior business students that will integrate the micro and macro
>view without repeating material students have had in basic management
>classes. The second class is for an MBAs in organizational
>development and change. The MBA students are working professionals and
>have 4-5 years managerial experience.
>
>If you are willing to share materials, syllabi or 'tried and true'
>foundation concepts that have been successful, I would be most
>appreciative!

Regards,

Fred Nickols
740.397.2363
nickols@att.net
"Assistance at A Distance"
http://home.att.net/~nickols/articles.htm

From: Deon Binneman [mailto:deonbin@icon.co.za]

The basics of systems thinking and performance consulting will be basics
for me - I used to work in OD and those two helped me immensely when it
came to diagnostics - Look at Senge's work.

I can highly recommend a book called Transformation Thinking by Joyce
Wycoff. The thing she says and uses in that book is so simple but so
change invoking.

Thinking within an organisation is defined as the mental activity of
every member of the organisation..all the idea generation, learning &
skill development, exchange of information, development of strategic
directions, project planning, communication, market research, problem
solving, process improvement and quantum leaps that make up the total
intellectual activity of the organisation.

- Source: Transformation Thinking by Joyce Wycoff.

The gist of the book is about Transformation thinking - a change of
direction on all levels within an organisation, a change of not only how
we work, but how we think, interact, participate and perform.

IMHO well worth checking out.

Deon Binneman, mailto:deonbin@icon.co.za
Phone/Fax +27 011 4753515
Mobile: 083 4254318
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Managing member: REPUCOMM
Johannesburg, South Africa.
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From: Conna Condon [mailto:gandolf@cyberverse.com]

This sounds like an interesting perspective on organizational thinking.

I'd love to see how it would work in combination with Bolman & Deal's
book
"Reframing Organizations: Artistry, choice, and Leadership."

What I found most interesting about the Bolman & Deal text was that it
looked at an organization from 4 different perspectives: Structural,
Human
Resource, Political, and Symbolic. As I worked with the text I
realized
that some of my biases in perspective had inhibited some creativity; and
I
came to understand some of the biases of others.

Conna Condon
DBA Candidate

Patricia,

I would be interested in the responses you receive. I am currently teaching
this course but with a text that I would not recommend in it's current form.
Managing Change by Todd Jick is too outdated and my students have responsed
negatively to that feature. I used An experiential approach to OD by Harvey
& Brown (Prentice Hall) a few years ago and liked it as an OD text. I have
also used cummings & worley's Organization Development & Change
(Southwester)text which may be a bit too dry for undergrads.

The course I am teaching now is called managing change but the second time
through this semester I have added some OD as well. I will be searching for
new materials and texts for next fall.

Finally, the OD&C division of the academy has a web site with a section
devoted to teaching ODC. They have posted some syllabi there.

Thanks for sharing your results-good luck!

Tracey
Tracey Honeycutt Sigler
Assistant Professor of Management
Department of Management & Marketing
Northern Kentucky University
Nunn Drive, 472 BEP
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Voice: (859) 572-5914
Fax: (859) 572-5150
Email: siglert@nku.edu

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From: Patricia Fandt [mailto:pmfandt@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 2:46 PM
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: classes in change


I'm beginning to prepare for two classes, one in organizational change for
junior-senior business students that will integrate the micro and macro
view without repeating material students have had in basic management
classes. The second class is for an MBAs in organizational
development and change. The MBA students are working professionals and
have 4-5 years managerial experience.

If you are willing to share materials, syllabi or 'tried and true'
foundation concepts that have been successful, I would be most
appreciative! Please send it directly to me at:

pmfandt@u.washington.edu

Thank you, Patricia Fandt
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From: Deon Binneman [mailto:deonbin@icon.co.za]

By reading the magazine Fast Company you can update old text with new
information - Check out www.fastcompany.com.

It is full of useful case studies and examples that link OD and change
management in the new economy.

Deon Binneman, mailto:deonbin@icon.co.za
Speaker, Trainer & Consultant,
Managing member: REPUCOMM
Johannesburg, South Africa.