Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change

by Darlene Russ-Eft, Hallie S. Preskill

Take control of your resources and get the most out of your work with this helpful guide on organization and productivity.




From new product launches to large-scale training initiatives, organizations need the tools to measure the effectiveness of their programs, processes, and systems. In Evaluation in Organizations, learning theory experts Darlene Russ-Eft and Hallie Preskill integrate the most current research with practical applications to provide a fully revised new edition of this essential resource for managers, human resource professionals, students, and teachers.

Genres: Nonfiction, Education

560 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2001

Reviews

[Ryan Giffen · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book for those aspiring consultants and/or college administrators who develop curriculum and evaluate its outcomes. Although a large, intimidating book at first, Russ-Eft and Preskill (2009) provide readers with a writing style that is easy to understand, thus, making it a quick read. Highly recommend for the use in the classroom if you teach research methods or assessment courses.

[Jamie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book really isn't bad for a textbook about using evaluations in organizations. It is thorough yet concise. The material really just isn't very interesting to me, which made it a tedious read. But if I had to read a book for a course on evaluation, this was a good one to have.

[W. C. Parker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Insightful and helped develop my perspective on how healthy organizations inject evaluation concepts and theory into their recipe for operational effectiveness.

Read as part of The University of Alabama’s Graduate School curriculum.

[Paul, · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for an evaluation course in grad school. Not a bad book, but out of touch with the world of international development, and, unfortunately, therefore pretty far behind the state of the art.

[Leslie Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Somewhat dry, but definitely useful! Keeping my copy!

[Carrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was assigned for a doctoral evaluation course and it had very good information but was dry and wordy.

[Kyrstin Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Straight-forward and helpful in understanding program evaluation.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Russ-Eft and Preskill provide a fairly thorough look at performing systematic evaluations. I read this book as part of a strategic leadership curriculum, but I can see its applicability on a variety of other fronts: general organizational development, professional development, and a host of traditional research projects.

This book is a textbook in every way, down to the slow moving, dense writing that characterizes our college years. The authors do a good job of breaking up the text with tables and other figures. The chapters usually average about 15-17 pages; plan on setting aside at least an hour for each to allow the text to sink in.

This is a book that will be on my "active" shelf for years to come because of its applicability to my work endeavors. I have no intention of memorizing its wisdom since it will be on that shelf!

Anyway, for the topic at hand, it is a very good book. I dropped the stars to three only because it is incredibly dry.

J.

[Vicky · Rating 3 out of 5]

FIVE stars for this book being thorough and understandable if you need to learn about evaluations in organizations. In that sense, I got a bit from reading this, and it was a great reference for when it came time to do my sections for a group evaluation plan project. That I'm turning in this week. Then I'm done!! and I wanna forget everything!! but for what, I'll try to keep what I've gathered

but how I actually felt was, "I wanna read fanfic right now" which has nothing to do with the quality of this sooo

oh well

[Lauren Hegarty · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was required reading for a master's class. Good comprehensive resource for conducting program evaluations.