Strategic Engagement continues in Volume II with four more activities. In contrast to Volume I, I learned these activities after graduate school while working internally as an Organization Development practitioner under the mentorship of Robert P Crosby. Volume II focuses on sys…
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Strategic Engagement continues in Volume II with four more activities. In contrast to Volume I, I learned these activities after graduate school while working internally as an Organization Development practitioner under the mentorship of Robert P Crosby. Volume II focuses on sys…
Volume I covers four core activities from my unique graduate experience under the tutelage of Robert P Crosby. The activities include two forms of third-party conflict (boss-employee and employee-employee), transition meetings, and work team development.
Volume I covers four core activities from my unique graduate experience under the tutelage of Robert P Crosby. The activities include two forms of third-party conflict (boss-employee and employee-employee), transition meetings, and work team development.
This case study examines a whole-system method used in a development setting: a November 1998 Future Search conference for the UN system in Pakistan, with a multicultural mix of over 60 participants from different UN, government, donor and civil society organizations. The resear…
The purpose of this study was to examine the conceptual and theoretical perspectives and development of key learnings from the writings of Edgar Schein spanning more than 60 years using a historical analysis methodology, from the interpretivist paradigm. With more than 240 total…
This action-research project addresses the issues affecting information technology development and deployment, in particular web-based applications intended to improve management and working processes to drive employee involvement, information, knowledge sharing, and performance…
Driven by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act(HITECH), and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), integrated healthcare systems have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) and other technologies capable of capturing and storing discrete data elem…
This study evaluates successful organization development (OD) and change initiatives in Anglophone West African Countries (AWA) from 1991 to 2011 using the case meta-analysis methodology. It posits that despite the longstanding problems, failures, and management challenges AWA c…
The increasing rate of business failure in Nigeria as being attributed to poor human resource planning has been a subject of intellectual debate. The consequences of nepotism, favouritism, religious influence and ethnicity in the selection process have affected the process as ev…
Foundations of human resource development
by Swanson, Richard A., Holton, Elwood F.
fromBK business book
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Type: Book
Here, leading scholars in the field present an essential guidebook for the human resource development profession. Drawing on an extensive knowledge base, Swanson and Holton update their classic single volume compilation of the foundational materials of the profession.
This text emphasizes sociological approaches to organizations. It recognizes, summarizes, and comments on the contributions of numerous other disciplines to the study of organizations, including behavioral and institutional economics, political science, strategy, and management …
Organizations today are awash in change. Managing change requires leaders to focus simultaneously on managing the business and providing effective leadership to the people. More often than not, it is the focus on the people side that loses out. This book offers a framework for u…
"In his worldwide bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, Christensen explained how industry leaders get blindsided by disruptive innovations precisely because they focus too closely on their most profitable customers and businesses. The Innovator's Solution shows how companies get …
The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world. It affects all our lives continuously. It feeds, entertains, houses and, employs us. It generates vast amounts of revenue for those who own it and it invests a substantial proportion of the we…
Presenting new insight into such companies as 3M, Walt Disney, and General Electric, a study on what makes companies successful examines their flexibility, ideology, and strong purpose.
Provides insight into the changes that are affecting politics, business and society itself. Business managers need to be aware of these changes in order to benefit from the opportunities that the future has to offer.
Textbook on a theory of organization development, with particular reference to learning processes - distinguishes between 'single-loop' and 'double-loop' learning (depending if the detection and correction of errors occurs with or without modification of established company poli…
Documents the development of the Socio-Technical Systems Design paradigm on work organization from 1951 to 1993.
Evaluates a research programme of the Swedish Work Environment Fund, called "Leadership, Organization and Codetermination," concerning strategies for change and development in working life and the role of active participation in workplace development.