The California School of Organizational Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory, Skills, and Techniques

Consulting psychologists working with organizations in business, government, and nonprofit institutions will find guidance on assessing and coaching individuals, creating and improving team function, and improving the quality of the organization as a whole in this reference. In addition to sections on individual, group, and organizational topics, there are sections on professional practice issues and on special issues related to consulting to industries, schools, and government, nonprofit, and international organizations. Lowman is systemwide dean of the California School of Organizational Studies and director of the Organizational Consulting Center at Alliant International University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

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Whether working on the individual, group, or organizational level,consulting psychologists have become vital to improving the peopleside of organizations. Practitioners working with organizations inbusiness, government, and nonprofit institutions have a need for acomprehensive guide to the issues they face in this expanding fieldof practice. The Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychologyis the first systemic treatment for the profession, specificallydesigned to help practitioners in assessing and coachingindividuals, creating or improving team functioning, and improvingthe quality of the organization as a whole. The Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology, which is avolume in The California School of Organizational Studies series,features contributions from some of the world's eminent authoritiesin consulting psychology. The book's editor, Rodney L. Lowman, ishimself a renowned educator and practitioner in the field. Thecontributors offer their wisdom on a remarkably wide range ofissues, including assessment and evaluation, team building,executive coaching, personality testing, interpersonal conflictsand relationships, multicultural and diversity issues, what worksand what doesn't in organizational consultation interventions, howto hire and best use consultants, and other key issues forindividuals, groups, and the organizational system. Organized intosections on individual, group, and organizational topics, the bookincludes a section on professional practice issues as well as asection on the special issues in consulting to industries, schools,and government, nonprofit, and international organizations. This all-encompassing guide is destined to become a classicreference work for professionals of all types who aspire to workeffectively with executives, managers, teams, or larger groups inall types of organizations.