Reflecting over six years of changes in the field, the Second Edition of this lauded reference/text exhaustively analyzes all aspects of organizational consulting-including normative, empirical, and political topics-and offers a broad view of consultation diagnoses, problem centers, and interventions.

Second Edition contains more than 75% new ot significantly altered chapters than the first edition.

Retaining the structural integrity and objectives of the first edition, the updated Handbook of Organizational Consultation, Second Edition

• forecasts future developments in consultation techniques, as by using the Delphi Method
• maximizes the latest strategies for team development, sustenance, and success
• illustrates the most productive and healthy organizational changes at various stages of organizational consultation
• development new models for organization and change in light in the Knowledge Age
• applies the most recent organizational development techniques to consultation practices
• enhances the successful "6 perspectives" approach to provide multiple classifications of all chapters
• demonstrates how to respond to fast-changing international markets, including mergers, transitions, transformations, and global perspectives
• and much more!

With 130 chapters, 103 international experts, and nearly 1800 literature references, tables, drawings-600 new to this edition-the Handbook of Organizational Consultation, Second Edition is a necessary and valuable refernce for public administrators, consultants, organizational development specialists, and business managers, and an outstanding text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking consultation courses in the departments of psychology, management, public administration, education, and social work.