Productive workplaces revisited : dignity, meaning, and community in the 21st century /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass,
c2004.
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| Edition: | [2nd ed.]. |
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Table of Contents:
- A personal prologue: discovering theories x and y
- Scientific management revisited: a tale of two Taylors
- The consulting engineer: Taylor invents a new profession
- Lewin: the practical theorist
- The learning organization: Lewin's legacy to management
- Mcgregor and the roots of organization development
- The human side of enterprise revisited: a new look at theories x and y
- Undoing Taylorism: Emery, Trist, and the sociotechnical revolution
- Open systems and the new paradigm: how Emery and Trist redefined the workplace
- Adding action to research: Lewin's practice theory road map
- Methods of diagnosis and action: taking snapshots and making movies
- Rethinking organizational improvement: new perspectives on consultation
- Improving whole systems: alternatives to the report-in-the-drawer phenomenon
- Management training in academic medicine
- Productivity after Taylor: systems learning replaces expert analysis
- Managing and consulting in the 21st century
- Transforming teamwork: working relationships in a fast-changing world
- Designing work: structure and process for learning and self-control
- Managing and consulting beyond the design limits: changing everything at once
- Future search: evolving a whole systems improvement strategy
- Improving whole systems worldwide
- How there and then looks from here and now: ten cases revisited
- Epilogue: still caught between paradigms: where do we go from here?