Best Practices in Organization Development and Change: Culture, Leadership, Retention, Performance and Coaching - Hardcover

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Louis Carter is a best practices consultant and director of products at Linkage, Inc. specializing in programs that integrate action learning, leadership development, and other organizational development theories. He has spoken at major international and domestic conferences on the subject of best practices in organization development and experiential/actionable learning. David Giber is vice president of consulting services for Linkage, Inc. He is a leading expert in designing and implementing integrated leadership development. For more than fifteen years he has served at the director level for a wide variety of domestic and global organizations. Marshall Goldsmith is the founder of Keilty, Goldsmith & Company and one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior. Goldsmith has been ranked in The Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" consultants in the field of executive development.

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Learn from the experts in the field how to create and enhance your organization and human resource development (OD/HRD) initiative. Using a case study approach, Best Practices in Organization Development and Change, combines a down-to-earth approach with readily applied tools such as instruments, training concepts, and competency models that can be used as benchmarks for the successful implementation of your OD/HRD initiative. Includes a CD Rom with additional forms. The case studies are introduced by top practitioners in the field including:

• Warner Burke
• Jay Conger
• John Sullivan
• Edward Lawler III
• Beverly Kaye
• Richard Beckhard

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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.