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by: Louis Carter, Richard F. Beckhard, W. Warner Burke, Edward E. Lawler III, Beverly L. Kaye, Jay Alden Conger, John Sullivan  List Price: $90.00 Amazon.com's Price: $72.00 You Save: $18.00 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.406 EAN: 9780787956660 ISBN: 078795666X Label: Pfeiffer Manufacturer: Pfeiffer Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: September 07, 2001 Publisher: Pfeiffer Studio: Pfeiffer Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Best of the How to GuideThis book was a worthwhile purchase. It is very different from many books that just present the strategy or concept with very little or no applicability. The book actually provides one with a "how to" guide in addressing the many development, performance and other issues we grapple with in our organisations today. Rating:  - Bravo to the editors!This book is terrific! I only hope that more best practices books are created like this one in the future. Please keep these books coming! They are better than benchmarking reports because they provide all of the elements necessary to fully understand how to lead initiatives in addition to all of the research. Rating: - Five Topic Areas of OD and HRD Initiatives"The principal goal of this book is to provide you with the key ingredients taken from best-companies to help you create and enhance your organization and human resource development (OD/HRD) initiative. Through a case study approach, this book provides practical, easy-to-apply tools, instruments, training, concepts, and competency models that can be used as benchmarks for the successful implementation of your specific OD/HRD initiative (from the Introduction)." In this context, Louis Carter, ... Read More Rating: - Substantial Cost...and of Even Greater ValueHere in a single volume is about all that is needed to design, implement, and then monitor a program through which to achieve organizational transformation. Moreover, the editors have selected both information and wisdom which can help to ensure that such a program is comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective. The phrase "best practices" is apt but should not be misconstrued to mean that strategies and tactics which have been highly successful in some organizations are necessary going to be successful ... Read More Rating: - Many Interesting Case Histories of Making ImprovementsReading this book reminded me of attending a good conference where lots of company executives provide detailed examples of the issues they faced, and how they went about dealing with those issues. Since such conferences usually cost several hundred dollars, this book is a real bargain -- and you don't have to get on an airplane and fly someplace! One of the strengths of the book is that you receive several perspectives on the context for each case history. The editors describe what each case ... Read More 
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