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Behavioral Competencies, Goal Setting, and OD Practitioner Effectiveness
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In this article, a behavioral competency model was applied to organization development interventions conducted in the United States and New Zealand, and the results showed that the model was effective in improving the performance of OOD interventions.Abstract:
A behavioral competency model was applied to organization development (OD) interventions conducted in the United States and New Zealand. Consultants and their clients were surveyed to assess percei...read more
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Principles of sustainable prevention: Designing scale‐up of School‐wide Positive Behavior Support to promote durable systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS), an approach to building protective school cultures and preventing the development of problem behavior through instruction, environmental redesign, and attention to systems-level variables.
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Disentangling the Effects of Team Competences, Team Adaptability, and Client Communication on the Performance of Management Consulting Teams
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of team competences and team processes on the performance of management consulting teams are studied, i.e., the communication with their clients during the project and teams' adaptability to their task.
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The critical success factors in the client‐consulting relationship
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined recent projects involving external management consultants at a North American telecommunications firm, from the employees' point of view, to measure the extent to which the aforementioned "critical success factors" were perceived as being evident.
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Factors for consulting engagement success
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest six universal factors to help explain the success of engagement with management consultants: integrity, involvement and readiness to change, clear agreement concerning requirements and expectations, client control of the engagement, competence, and a good fit along a number of dimensions including models of consultancy, client expectations, consultant capabilities, and type.
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Service quality in consulting: what is engagement success?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the nature of service quality in a consulting engagement, and suggest that a consultant's engagement is successful if the consultant has met client expectations (by improving one or more of client performance, client capabilities, or organisational culture, without making any category worse).
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance
TL;DR: This article reviewed the book "A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance" by Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham and found it to be a good introduction to goal setting and task performance.
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Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings
John E. Hunter,Frank L. Schmidt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a meta-analysis of Artifact Distributions and their impact on study outcomes. But they focus mainly on the second-order sampling error and related issues.
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High-Involvement Management
TL;DR: In this article, the promise of participative management is discussed and why participative approaches meet today's needs and what works and does not work in a high-involvement organization.