The present chapter outlines the practical steps of a targeted organizational health development (OHD) process. It summarizes the theoretical background of capacity building (CB) for OHD of the previous chapter X and introduces principles of consulting based on systems theory as a useful practical approach to CB in organizations. It then shows how this theoretical background transfers into practice. The initiation phase includes contracting between the consultant/client system, developing a project architecture that specifies which perspective is involved in which phase of the project, and finally building competence of managers of the organization for going through the second phase of a participatory optimization/renewal process with their teams. This second phase builds on existing team structures and applies a common four-step project cycle of analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. For each of these steps of systemic consulting it is specified how it contributes to CB for OHD in organizations - supporting practical implementation and theory-driven evaluation of this approach.
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Bauer, G. F., Lehmann, K., Blum-Rüegg, A., & Jenny, G. J. (2014). Systemic consulting for organizational health development: Theory and practice. In Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach (Vol. 9789400756403, pp. 117–132). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5640-3_8
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