This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the principles, theories, constructs, and strategies in organizational development and change management.

This authoritative Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology title focuses on leadership, change and organizational development. The editors have drawn on their collective experience in collating thematically-structured material from leading writers based in the US, Europe and Asia.

Coinciding with growing international interest in the applications of psychology to organizations, the work offers a unique depth of analysis from an explicitly psychological perspective. Each chapter includes a detailed literature review that offers academics, researchers, scientist-practitioners and students an invaluable frame of reference. Coverage is built around competencies set forth by regulatory agencies including the APA and BPS, and includes leadership and employee well-being, positive psychology and Appreciative Inquiry, organizational creativity and innovation, and leadership-culture fit.

A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of leadership, change and OD

• Puts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly research
• Thematic chapters cover leadership and employee well-being, organizational creativity and innovation, positive psychology and Appreciative Inquiry, and leadership-culture fit
• Contributors include David Cooperrider, Manfred Kets de Vries, Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Staale Einarsen, David Day, Beverley Alimo-Metcalfe, Michael Chaskalson and Bernard Burnes