RESEARCH: OD/HRD TRENDS AND FINDINGS

To provide additional context for the case studies presented in this book, we asked our contributors to reflect on 6 critical areas of their OD/HRD initiatives in an online survey. Areas covered by this survey include: 1) company and initiative background, 2) business diagnosis, 3) resistance to change, 4) design and implementation, 5) evaluating the initiative, and 6) summary.

Although the initiatives in this book cover a broad range of organization and human resource development topic areas, they are all bound by 1 key characteristic: change. As Linda Ackerman says in the book Organization Development Classics, “Change is one of those words that serves as a melting pot for scores of concepts and methods…. ...

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