OD Case Report: Consulting with a National Organization

This case study on consultation with an organization will deal with a continuing consultation process with a large semi‐governmental social welfare organization covering a period of six years. This organization has a national headquarters staff of 655 employees. It is organized on the basis of four regional operations and an overseas activity. There are more than one thousand paid employees in these regional offices under direct supervision of a field staff of several hundred persons, who give direct field consultation and program guidance to some 3,700 local units of the organization. It is estimated that the local units of this organization, including the regional and national office, involves more than 2 million volunteers.