Description
This volume in the “Practicing of Organization Development” series offers consultants a practical guide to family business consulting that is based on sound theoretical material. It provides a road map to effective change management for working with family businesses. This resource is based on traditional organizational development (OD) methodology of action research and managing change. The book teaches how to understand the uniqueness of family businesses and family business consulting, recognize the ways that OD methods can be used with family businesses and identify the skills that are critical to family business consulting such as: use and management of self; use of both process and content; systems thinking; and interdisciplinary collaboration.