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The Evolution of an Employee-Training Program: A Three-Year Flexible Organization Development Effort
Renate R. Mai-Dalton and F. Barry Barnes
Group & Organization Management, December 1991; vol. 16, 4: pp. 452-471.

For discussion:

How would you summarize the change effort described in this article? What was the role of the OD practitioner in the change? What process did the change follow?

Early History of the Fields of Practice of Training and Development and Organization Development
Richard J. Torraco
Advances in Developing Human Resources, 1523422316659898

For discussion:

How does the author connect the history of OD and training and development? Where are there connection points or points of divergence in these histories? What do you see as the relationship between OD and training? How does that relate to what you read about in Chapter 1?