2nd Edition
Handbook of Organizational Consultation, Second Editon
By Robert Golembiewski
Copyright 2000
1080 Pages
by
Routledge
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The second edition of the Handbook of Organizational Consultation includes more than 35 additional chapters and an expanded list of international contributors. It addresses all aspects of organizational consulting, including normative, empirical and political topics - and offers a broad view of consultation diagnoses, problem centers, and interventions. Perspectives on Political Science said this book is a reference guide, training handbook, and practitioner's tool [that] .stand[s] alone as a comprehensive source of information and guidance on the consultancy enterprise. . ..a careful reading of this book will be a profitable endeavor for both consulting practitioners and their clients.
Six orientations for the reader - an interpretive introduction; development, transition, or transformation - bringing change leadership into ht e21st century; selecting and energising a team; managers and project leaders conducting their own action research interventions; linking measurement to motivation; the consulcube - strategies for consultation; consultation in schools as organisations for learning; five stages for self-evaluating organisations; preventing regression in team building -a longitudinal study of the personal management interview; the psychological contract; models of development and issues they raise for consultants; operating systems interventions; American quality -born again; team-building and its risks; using the search conference technique for team socialisation and strategic planning; conceptual and consulting aspects of stakeholder theory, thinking, and management; pre-entry issues revisited; applying action research to public sector problems, international perspectives; using large system designs and action research to develop inter-organisational networks; perceiving evaluating, and responding to change - an inter-level approach; making teams work - implications for consulting practice; resilience and change at three levels; socio-technical systems consultation; performance appraisal techniques and applications -guides for consultants; managing organisational conflict; a two-phase planning process for managing change in organisations; micro and macro perspectives on gain sharing - achieving organisational change with alternative reward strategies; goal-setting programs -an agenda for practitioners; enlivening developmental relationships - the next best thing to mentoring and coaching; strategies for organisational transition; organisational effectiveness and development at different stages of growth - implications for consultants. (Part contents).
Biography
Robert Golembiewski
