Educating the scholar practitioner in organization development

Organization Development (OD) is a young social science. Little has been written on the intentional development of OD professionals. As a young field of inquiry it is important to understand how the future leaders of the field of OD are being developed. The focus of this work explores the education...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Colwill, Deborah A. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
SeriesContemporary trends in organization development and change.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615889
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-667-4
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 161 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Background literature
  • Chapter 1. Doctoral education
  • Chapter 2. The doctoral student
  • Chapter 3. Achieving learning
  • Part II. Research findings
  • Chapter 4. Faculty perspectives
  • Chapter 5. Alumni perspectives
  • Chapter 6. A synthesis of findings
  • Part III. Implications of the research
  • Chapter 7. Developing od practitioners
  • Chapter 8. Developing scholar practitioner doctoral students
  • Chapter 9. Toward a culture of learning
  • Appendix 1: Research methodology
  • Appendix 2: Further research
  • References
  • Author bio.