Culture, Leadership, Retention, Performance, Coaching
and Marshall Goldsmith
Best Practices in Organization Development and Change is 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 organization development or human resource development (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. It includes best-practice case studies from seventeen leading organizations that have achieved their change objectives.
The case studies will help you:
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
You’ll benefit from expertise at trend-setting companies such as:
If you’re looking to move human resources out of the administrative back seat to the driver seat of change management and strategic imperatives in your organization then this is the book you need to read. I recommend this book to any human resource or organization development professional or department who is seeking to be an active strategic business partner in their companies. The book documents excellent examples of benchmark tools and processes.
Sarah M. Plasky, Strategic Planning Manager, The Document Company Xerox