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Practicing Organization Development: A Guide forConsultants
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Enhanced with exhibits, activities, instruments, case studies, and more, each section of this indispensable resource shows you how to implement the change process. The editors, themselves leaders in the field of OD, include insights from a wide variety of well-known practitioners.

You'll get valuable tips on:

Defining ODMarketing OD servicesPlanning and conducting an interventionAssessing the effort and gathering feedbackConducting large-scale and small-scale interventionsUsing OD methods internationallyMaintaining ethical standards in OD . . . and much more!

In addition, the book outlines the eight steps in action research: entry, start-up, assessment and feedback, action planning, intervention, evaluation, adoption, and separation. You'll learn the methods for applying each step and the competencies required to successfully conduct each one.

Practicing Organization Development is packed with useful, current, proven direction on applying OD principles in the real world--order your copy today!

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WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL is associate professor in The Department of Adult Education, Instructional Systems, and Workforce Education and Development at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the coauthor of Improving On-the-Job Training (1994) and Mastering the Instructional Design Process (1992), both from Jossey-Bass.
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Models for Change and Steps in Action Research.

Action Planning.

Interventions in Large Systems.

Interventions in Small Groups.

Person-Focused Interventions.

Evaluation.

Adoption.

Separation.

Ethics in OD.

Developing OD Competence for the Future.

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"Since the OD series in 1967, no other work has offered so much practical and conceptual material for OD practitioners." (Richard Beckhard, Coeditor, Addison-Wesley OD Series)
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