Toward a Profession of Coaching? A Definitional Examination of ‘Coaching,’ ‘Organization Development,’ and ‘Human Resource Development’

During the past few years, the growth of an emergent ‘coaching industry’ has resulted in some scholars calling for the development of a genuine coaching profession. Yet contemporary organization development (OD) and human resource development (HRD) practitioners conceive of coaching as an extant cor...

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Main Authors: Robert G. Hamlin, Andrea D. D. Ellinger, Rona S. Beattie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Brookes University 2009-02-01
Series:International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
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Online Access:https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/f5406269-f265-47ff-a8ca-337a067e9c0a/1/vol07issue1-paper-01.pdf