Welcome to the book companion website for Instructional Design for Organizational Justice: A Guide to Equitable Learning, Training, and Performance in Professional Education and Workforce Settings.

Book cover of Instructional Design for Organizational Justice.

This site will assist you to:

  • Decide if this book is right for you.

  • Download free templates you can use
    in your own ID practice.

  • Access free practice activities

  • Find information about the authors.

  • Purchase the book

The Book
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Who is this for?

This book is for leaders, managers, instructional designers, learning experience designers, human resource development specialists, and students, who are learning their craft.

Additionally, this book might be useful as a reference. This book may have a secondary appeal to education administration professionals who train teachers and university instructors.

  • This book is primarily for individuals who lead or manage, or build organizational training programs or courses, as well as other formal and informal learning interventions in organizations. Anyone in these areas who wishes to actively promote culturally responsive, inclusive, and equitable, interventions in performance-based L&D, might find this book useful.

  • L&D contexts where this book might provide useful guidance include, but are not limited to courses or other professional development opportunities offered by centers of excellence or corporate universities of mid-sized to large organizations, private ID course academies, performance improvement boutique consultancies, and professional societies such as ATD, The Guild, AECT, IBSTPI, ISPI, AHRD, and similar societies.

  • We use this book in our instructional design graduate course. Therefore, university professors interested in adding a service-learning component to their courses may be interested in using our approach to help their students manage service-learning ID projects that build the sponsor’s capacity to meet their mission and serve their community.

  • This book isn’t a guarantee or a theoretical review. It won’t serve individuals who are seeking advice to create decontextualized training or learning interventions. It won’t confirm that you are doing all the right things, if your process isn’t inclusive or just, or you don’t consider culture as an asset or diverse cultural inputs.

What the Book is and What it Is Not

What will the book let me do?

This book will help you do purposeful instructional design that has a positive impact. Through an organizational justice theory lens, you’ll become familiar with an inclusive design process that results in effective, engaging, and equitable performance-based learning and development interventions.

What the Book Will Help Me Do

Testimonials

  • "Instructional Design for Organizational Justice provides a unique and expansive view of learning design. Not only is this a comprehensive book, but it presents a societal and cultural context for doing instructional design work."

    Connie Malamed, M.A.
    Founder, Mastering Instructional Design

  • "Giacumo, Villlchica, and Stepich offer us a refreshing yet thought-provoking approach to ID. Instructional Design for Organizational Justice [...] reminds us of the power we have and lays out how we who develop instructional solutions for others can be truly inclusive."

    Judy Hale, Ph.D.
    Principle, Hale & Associates

  • "This book does more than just draw attention to an important conversation on justice, it provides concrete steps on how we can design for diversity, equity and inclusion."

    Tutaleni Iita Asino, Ph.D.
    Associate professor, Oklahoma State University

  • "This book is an excellent resource for leaders and faculty who seek to successfully implement equitable learning, training, and performance strategies in their organizations and professional practice."

    Constance H. Harris, Ph.D.
    Director of Online Learning, University of Baltimore

  • "I’ve worked in instructional design for nearly two decades, and I love the fresh outlook that this book provides. Anyone who reads and applies the methods in this book will be able to create more inclusive and effective learning material that engages their audience in meaningful ways."

    Emily Cox, M.Ed.
    Senior Experiential Learning Designer, Bryan University

  • "Your organization may have invested heavily in formal training events targeting diversity and inclusion. But you may be missing an opportunity to promote diversity and equity. To find out how, take a look at this new book that shows how to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion into your instructional design process and products.

    Ruth Colvin Clark, Ed.D.
    Principle, Clark Training and Consulting

  • "As someone responsible for preparing learning professionals to effectively meet the various challenges they face in the field, I am always looking for resources to support my students’ ID knowledge and practice. I was excited to find that this book presents both a model (LeaPs) that integrates DEI and ID practices, and real-world examples (e.g., case studies) and applications (e.g., templates) of these practices.

    Katherine Walters, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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