Recommend my Organizational Development reading list

December 19, 2019 1:06 PM

Over the years, my career has started to move into more organizational development work and industrial/organizational psychology topics. I'm willing to devote lots of time to self studying in order to learn the "official" approaches and theories of the field, but I need some help in building my reading list.

I'm open to both academic works as well as more popular business titles, but I'd lean towards the material I would have been exposed to if I did a degree in those fields. I want to be able to converse intelligently with someone who has formal training by knowing the key figures, theories, and approaches.

posted by philosophygeek to Work & Money (4 answers total)

The Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) has some really great evidence-based white papers. This area is tough because even though there are folks who do real research it seems like their work tends to get pushed down by flashier/more business jargon-y approaches with no research/evidence backing.

SIOP White Papers
https://www.siop.org/Research-Publications/SIOP-White-Papers

SIOP and SHRM white papers
https://www.siop.org/Research-Publications/SIOP-SHRM-White-Papers
posted by forkisbetter at 2:00 PM on December 19, 2019 [3 favorites]

Recent books by Dr. Phil Mirvis have some good case studies in organizational psychology.
posted by mark7570 at 2:40 PM on December 19, 2019

This is from SIOP and was a textbook in my M.Ed program: Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations (Elwood Holton III & Timothy Baldwin, Eds.), and I also like The Complete Guide to Nonprofit Management by Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc., which was also a textbook.
posted by katra at 4:41 PM on December 19, 2019

Anything by Edgar Schein is a good place to start.
posted by shw at 1:23 AM on December 20, 2019