Ironies in organizational development / Robert T. Golembiewski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golembiewski, Robert T.

Series:

Public administration and public policy ; 100.

Public administration and public policy ; 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (699 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed., rev. and expanded.

Place of Publication:

New York : Marcel Dekker, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writing for organizational development consultants and managers, Golembiewski (political science and management, U. of Georgia) presents an overview of the field that revolves around multiple ironies of OD in practice, ironies that have at their core a central irony: though OD theory reflects major

Contents:

Preface; Contents; Introduction; Undercutting the Irony of Ironies with Early and Recent Data; Further Weakening the Irony of Ironies; Challenging a Critical Assumption of the Capstone Irony; Toward Building Work Cultures to Order; Saving Conceptual Shortfalls from Themselves; Checking Downstream Progress, Years Later; Responsible Freedom as the Goal in OD, Part I; Responsible Freedom as the Goal in OD, Part II; Responsible Freedom as the Goal in OD, Part III; Not Every Learning Design Works Every Time; Not Every Design "Works" Everywhere; Illustrating Large-System Change in Business

Illustrating Large-System Change in GovernmentIllustrating Large-System Change in Health Care; Illustrating Large-System Change at the Interface*; A Probably Modest Contribution to Success Rates; A Big Contributor to Heightened Success Rates, Almost Undoubtedly; Acknowledging Some Limitations of "One Person, One Vote"*; Highlighting Differences in Personal Slack for Choice and Change, Part I; Highlighting Differences in Personal Slack for Choice and Change, Part II; Enlarging the Empowering Potential of the Workweek; Enhancing the Empowering Potential of the Concept "Workplace"

Enhancing the Empowering Potential of the Concept "Development"De.ning "Change" as Trinitarian; Really Appreciating Appreciative Inquiry; Reducing Ironies and Increasing Success Rates; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-04-018221-6

0-429-27119-0

1-4822-7582-1

1-280-20271-8

9786610202713

0-203-90903-8

9780429271199

OCLC:

252716965