Handbook of organizational consultation

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Handbook of organizational consultation

edited by Robert T. Golembiewski

(Public administration and public policy, 81)

Marcel Dekker, c2000

2nd ed., rev. and expanded

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

A handbook on organizational consultation. This second edition includes more than 35 new chapters and an expanded list of international contributors. It analyzes all aspects of organizational consulting - including normative, empirical and political topics - and offers a broad view of consultation diagnoses, problem centres, and interventions.

Table of Contents

  • 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).

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