Productive Workplaces Revisited : Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century


Marvin R. Weisbord
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
Medvirkende
Weisbord, Marvin Ross (Contributor)
Utgitt
New York : : Wiley, , 2004.
Omfang
1 online resource (547 p.)
Utgave
2nd ed.
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - PRODUCTIVE WORKPLACES REVISITED; Other Books by Marvin R. Weisbord; Contents; Acknowledgments; First Edition Acknowledgments; Second Edition Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction: How to Get the Most from; Purpose and Intent; Who Should Read This Book?; Three Major Themes; Overview of the Contents; Basic Values, Simple Methods; Second Edition Highlights; What You Will NOT Find in This Edition; A Brief Q& A; Chapter 1: A Personal Prologue: Discovering Theories X and Y; Introduction to Theory; The Initial Project: Multiskilled Teams; Successes. - From Research to Real LifeLimits of Sensitivity Training; Chapter 6: McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development; McGregor and Taylor; A Family with a Mission; McGregor's Influence; Theories X and Y; A New Prescription; Labor Relations Manager: Dewey and Almy; Chapter 7: Revisited: A New Look at Theories X and Y; McGregor at Antioch; Creating a Classic; A New Look at X and Y: Two Selves in Each of Us; Chapter 8: Undoing Taylorism: Emery, Trist, and the Sociotechnical Revolution; Sociotechnical Systems: Choice, Not Chance; Tavistock Institute; Bion's Group Theory. - Industrial Action Research in a Yorkshire Coal MineA Paradigm Shift; Enter Emery and Open Systems; Chapter 9: Open Systems and the New Paradigm: How Emery and Trist Redefined the Workplace; Work As a Systems Problem; Major New Concepts; The Knowledge Revolution; The "Turbulent" Environment; Communities, States, Nations; Remembering Eric Trist and Fred Emery ( 2003); A Collaboration Resumed; Changing Systems Without Prior Training; Chapter 10: Adding Action to Research: Lewin's Practice Theory Road Map; Going Beyond Taylor; Adding Action to Research; A New Look at Expert Problem Solving. - Learning from "the Environment". - Likert's RefinementsTask Forces; Chapter 11: Methods of Diagnosis and Action: Taking Snapshots and Making Movies; Case 1. Classical Action Research: The Food Services Turnover Problem ( 1970 - 1971); Turnover Update at Food Services; Industry Norms in 2003; Case 2. Enlarging the Playing Field: Chem Corp's Client-Centered Survey Feedback ( 1978 - 1979); Chem Corp Twenty Years Later; Case 3. Wrong Problem, Right Solution: Packaging Plant Meets a Mess in the Marketplace ( 1979); Packaging Plant Revisited; Employee-Designed Work Teams; Remembering Changes Past ( 2002); Was It Worth the Effort?. - The Transformation of a Family Enterprise ( 2003)From Work Team to Team of One; Chapte 2: Scientific Management Revisited: A Tale of Two Taylors; Taylor the Quaker Pacifist; Taylor the Pioneer Consultant; Chapter 3: The Consulting Engineer: Taylor Invents a New Profession; Extending Taylorism; Learning from Taylorism; Chapter 4: Lewin: The Practical Theorist; Lewin's Contributions to Management; From East Prussia to Iowa; Studying Groups; Chapter 5: The Learning Organization: Lewin's Legacy to Management; Group Decisions; Reducing Resistance to Change; Action Research Today. - In Productive Workplaces Revisited, Marvin Weisbord takes the next step in exploring effective strategies for improving workplace productivity through dignity, meaning, and community. Remarkably, in this new edition the author revisits the case studies from the first edition, Productive Workplaces, to show the long-term effects of OD interventions -- twenty-plus years after the fact and provides invaluable insights for practitioner and student alike. In five new chapters, Weisbord reinterprets his systems work in health care and steel-making, describes how "future search," his m
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Industrial management -- Employee participation.
Industrial management.
Quality of work life.
Business & Economics
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