This major handbook covers all aspects of counselling within an organizational context,. The authors provide a thorough examination of all the key areas and concerns in the field, including: models of counselling in organizations; assessing the organization for counselling provision; introducing...

Client and consultant in any intervention will have differing needs and expectations of the outcomes of their working association. There seem to be considerable skills demanded on both sides during the process of entering into an “engagement” and lack of care and sensitivity in the early...

This case example is about working in an organisation characterised by conflict and low trust within the top and senior management levels. It sets out the stages of the work that was done, and the resulting, and continuing, positive pay‐offs which have taken place.

Invaluable lessons can be culled from failure, which often provides an opportunity for critical review. The author here divulges some of his own experiences.

In this paper we focus on the question: will the HIPC debt reduction programme help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the ‘debt game’ in Africa? We concentrate on the donor and official creditor side, by exploring how the growing debt of...

Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...