Linkage, Inc.'s Best Practices in Organization & Human Resources Development Handbook - Softcover

Louis Carter; Warner Burke; Jay Conger; Ed Lawler; Bev Kaye; Louis L. Carter; Richard Beckhard; Ed Lawler III; John Sullivan

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9780967796505: Linkage, Inc.'s Best Practices in Organization & Human Resources Development Handbook

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ISBN 10: 0967796504 ISBN 13: 9780967796505

Publisher: Linkage Press, 2000

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Linkage, Inc.'s Best Practices in Organization and Human Resources Development Handbook is a collaborative work that includes 17 OD/HRD systems from the world's foremost organizations including Boeing, Westinghouse, Dow Corning, Xerox, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, ServiceMaster, Nortel Networks, Kraft Foods, and Media One. The handbook covers five of the hottest management topics today: organization development & change, leadership development, recruitment & retention, performance management, and coaching & mentoring. OD/HRD case studies include models, tools, assessments, training, and a full breakdown of the change process. The book includes contributions from top organization and human resources development experts such as Richard Beckhard, Warner Burke, Jay Conger, Bev Kaye, Ed Lawler, and John Sullivan.

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From the Publisher:

We are proud to present you with this rich resource of what our best companies are doing by way of organization development and human resources development. The editors have asked the world's best practitioners to provide their stories of how they have changed and developed their "best-in-class" organizations. Linkage editors coached these practitioners to provide detail and insight as to the who, what, where, when, why, and how behind these OD/HRD initiatives along with the tools, instruments, models, and other resources that were used. This is one of the most comprehensive resources on the market today for all of those interested in or practicing OD/HRD.

From the Inside Flap:

Best Practices in Organization Development and Change brings together in one volume 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 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. The book includes best-practice case studies from seventeen leading organizations that have achieved their change objectives. Each of these case studies includes an analysis of the six basic elements of the change process and will teach you how to

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

The book also contains targeted examples of models used by large corporations, and helpful tools you can use to develop organizational assessments, employee satisfaction and change capability evaluations, and successful training and organization interventions. You'll benefit from expertise at trend-setting companies such as * Kraft Foods * Smithkline Beecham * Westinghouse * Sun Microsystems * and many more!
A hands-on guide, Best Practices in Organization Development and Change is filled with actual forms, guides, training, competency models, and methodologies for putting in place a successful organization or human resource development (OD/HRD) program. You can easily implement and customize these helpful tools to fit your specific organizational needs.

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