Overview

Organization Development provides a forum for the ideas and experiences of a researcher and consultant concerned with change in organizations. It shows how choice and change can be guided in a world now characterized by what the author terms ""permanent temporariness."" The book is at heart an approach to increasing the amount of responsible freedom at work. In this respect, the volume responds to an avalanche of social criticism that has been directed at bureaucracy, ""organizational America,"" and the ""organizational ethic."" The field at organization development is informed by such criticisms but transcends it via technology and values that drive change and choice alike.

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Author:   Robert Golembiewski
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781412808644

ISBN 10:   1412808642
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: What OD is, and Aspires To; Introduction; 1: “A Rose by Any Other Name . . .”: OD? OE? OI? HRD?; 2: Process Observation as the Key: Where and When to Practice Skills; 3: OD as Stool: Ruminations about a Metaphor; 4: Why OD? Putting Values in Their Prominent Place; 5: OD as Increasing Responsible Freedom in Organizations; 6: OT and OD: Transformation, Fine Tuning, or Rechristening?; 7: Some Differences between OD Generations, I: Four Generations and a Few Differentiae; 8: Some Differences between OD Generations, II: Socialization and Lode Stars; 9: Two Faces of OD: Populism and Elitism; 10: OD’s Near-Term Destiny: Professional Maturation or Time’s Dumpster?; 11: The Yellow Envelope on the Floor: Does Paying the Piper Imply Calling the Tune?; 12: Is OD Universalistic or Particularistic? Some Similarities between Private- and Public-Sector Consultation *; 13: Is OD Narrowly Culture-Bound? Well, Yes; and Then, No; 2: What OD Might Become; Introduction; 14: “So, What about Success Rates?”

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Robert T. Golembiewski is distinguished research professor emeritus at the University of Georgia. He has authored or edited over seventy-five books and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

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