Implementing Organizational Interventions: Steps, Processes, and Best Practices

With emphasis on actually implementing organizational interventions in a variety of cultures and climates, this nuts-and-bolts guide covers all the bases. It not only provides readers with expert advice on confronting the variables that effect a broad array of organizational interventions, but also offers practical guidance for increasing the probability of success. Chapters are arranged around major content areas, including staffing, performance management, reward systems, and organizational strategy, and focus on the primary steps involved, issues that must be considered, and decisions that must be made. First-hand accounts by the contributors illuminate real-world application.

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Industrial psychologists, both consultants and those in-house, will find models, strategies, and tools for implementing organizational interventions and a review of current thinking and research in the field in this book of practical examples and lessons learned. Core chapters are organized around specific content areas such as information technology, mergers and acquisitions, and training, with an outline of steps involved, issues to be considered, and decisions to be made. The authors are fellows of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jerry W. Hedge is president and chief operation officer of Personnel Decisions Research Institutes. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association. He currently serves on the editorial board of SIOP's Professional Practice Series.

Elaine D. Pulakos is executive vice president and director of Personnel Decisions Research Institutes' Washington D.C. office. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and has served as SIOP president.