Book description
Learn from experts at the world's top organizations!
Best Practices in Organization Development and Change is a state-of-the-art resource that presents the most important ideas and effective strategies from experts and top companies in the field. Comprehensive in scope, the book addresses the five most important organization development or human resource development (OD/HRD) topics--organization development and change, leadership development, recruitment and retention, performance management, and coaching and mentoring--and offers a practical framework for design, implementation, and evaluation. It includes best-practice case studies from seventeen leading organizations that have achieved their change objectives.
The case studies will help you:
Analyze the need for the specific OD/HRD initiative
Build a solid business case for OD/HRD
Identify the audience for the initiative
Design an effective OD/HRD initiative
Implement a successful design of the initiative
Evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative
You'll benefit from expertise at trend-setting companies such as: Kraft Foods * Smithkline Beecham * Westinghouse * Sun Microsystems . . . and many more!
"An extremely important volume with useful contextual perspectives plus vivid and important case studies of companies that know what they're doing to lead change."
--Warren Bennis, author, On Becoming a Leader and Organizing Genius
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
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PART TWO: ORGANIZATION & HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES
- SECTION ONE: Organization Development & Change
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SECTION TWO: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
- THE FIELD OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY A. CONGER
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CHAPTER EIGHT: Boeing
- INTRODUCTION—THE VISION
- BUILDING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
- PROGRAM OVERVIEW
- THE REDESIGN PROCESS
- KEY ELEMENTS OF THE NEW DESIGN—DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
- KEY ELEMENTS OF THE NEW DESIGN—SELECTION AND ORIENTATION PROCESS
- KEY ELEMENTS OF THE NEW DESIGN—PROJECT NOMINATION AND SELECTION PROCESS
- KEY ELEMENTS OF THE NEW DESIGN—PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS
- EXIT MANAGEMENT
- EVALUATION—RESULTS TO DATE
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR
- CHAPTER NINE: Johnson & Johnson
- CHAPTER TEN: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- SECTION THREE: RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
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SECTION FOUR: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: AN INTRODUCTION BY EDWARD E. LAWLER III
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Case Corporation
- INTRODUCTION
- FROM THE “WHAT” TO THE “WHAT AND HOW” OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- DRIVING CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION ABOUT PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT
- PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
- ENHANCING MANAGERS' SKILLS IN MANAGING PERFORMANCE
- GLOBAL APPLICATION
- IMPLEMENTATION
- EVALUATION
- KEY CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED
- SUMMARY
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Sonoco
- SECTION FIVE: COACHING AND MENTORING
- PART THREE: CONCLUSION
Product information
- Title: Best Practices in Organization Development and Change: Culture, Leadership, Retention, Performance, Coaching
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2001
- Publisher(s): Pfeiffer
- ISBN: 9780470604557
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