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Failures in organization development and change : cases and essays for learning

UK. Monographic collection essays on failures in organization development and change - presents cases dealing with business organization, bureaucracy, job enrichment, work organization, etc. Bibliography pp. 335 to 342
Print Book, English, ©1977
Wiley, New York, ©1977
Case Reports
xiii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
9780471024057, 0471024058
3205537
Entry
Is the culture hostile to organization development?: the U.K. example / Fritz Steele
Failure at entry / David Berg
The tensions between research and intervention in intergroup conflict / Roy Lewicki and Clayton Alderfer
Change
Organization development: the profession and the practitioner / Clayton Alderfer and David Berg
Introducing change to a government agency / William Crockett
A survey feedback and problem-solving intervention in a school district: "we'll take the survey but you can keep the feedback" / Susan Mohrman, Allan Mohrman, Robert Cooke, and Robert Duncan
Bureaucracy and social change: an anatomy of a training failure / Warren Bennis
A failure of job enrichment: the case of the change that wasn't / Linda Frank and Richard Hackman
Diffusion
The diffusion of new work structures: explaining why success didn't take / Richard Walton
The light at the end of the tunnel is a train coming in the opposite direction / Jay Nisberg
Team building in the small business community: the success and failure of OD / Roy Lewicki
Changing, erring, and learning / Donald Michael and Philip Mirvis
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