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Praise for Productive Workplaces
"Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice of organization development (OD) since the early 1970's. This book is a wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events, schools of thought, and controversies that have punctuated the field from its beginnings. It should be required reading for every Organization Behavior and Development scholar. Among its many virtues, the book is beautifully written." —Peter Vaill, senior scholar and emeritus professor of management, Antioch University Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change; author, Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water, and Spirited Leading and Learning
"During my 33-year career, I have been involved in publishing well over 1,000 books. Productive Workplaces is certainly among the top five most influential in terms of its impact on the organizations in which I worked, as well as on my personal leadership, and management concepts, and practices." —Steven Piersanti, president and publisher, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.; formerly president, Jossey-Bass Publishers
"As a professor in graduate studies in leadership and business psychology, I see my role as passing on to a new generation the values and lessons learned from a 25-year career in organizational effectiveness. Marvin Weisbord is a master whose wisdom I encourage my students to seek out." —Connie S. Fuller, Ph.D., associate chair and assistant professor, Business Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology; coauthor, Bridging the Boomer-Xer Gap: Creating Authentic Teams for High Performance at Work
"If somebody asks me to name just one good book on management, or organizational development, or social psychology, I give them the same answer: Productive Workplaces. It addresses the heady topic of meaning and dignity in work with writing that is as engaging as a well-written novel." —Gil Steil, Gil Steil Associates, Boston, Massachusetts
Foreword
Preface: Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition
Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces
Part One: Mythology and Managing
1. A Mythology of Organizational Change
2. How I Learned to Manage by Managing
Part Two: Searching for Productive Workplaces
3. Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors
4. Taylor Invents a New Profession
5. Action Research: Lewin Revises Taylorism
6. Lewin's Legacy to Management
7. The Transition to Experiential Learning
8. McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development
9. Theories X and Y for a New Generation
10. Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace
11. Making the New Paradigm Workable
Part Three: Learning from Experience
12. Putting Action Research to Work
13. Rethinking Diagnosis and Action
Case 1: Food Services: Action Research Joins Human Resource Accounting
Case 2: Chem Corp R&D: Managers Do Their Own Feedback
Case 3: Packaging Plant: Operators Meet Expert Analysis
Case 4: Solcorp: Expertise Can't Fix the Old Paradigm
14. Managing and Consulting in Permanent White Water
15. Involving Everyone to Improve the Whole
Case 5: Medical School: Stakeholders Plan the Future
Case 6: Printing Inc.: Getting the Report Out of the Drawer
16. Revising Theories of What Works
17. Making Systems Thinking Experiential
Part Four: Integrating the Past into the Present
18. 21st Century Managing and Consulting
19. Changing Everything at Once
20. Teamwork in a Fast-Changing World
21. Designing Work for Learning and Self-Control
22. Future Search: The Whole System in the Room
23. Cross-Cultural Future Searching
Part Five: Learning Then and Now
24. Ten Cases Decades Later: What’s Sustainable About “Change”?
25. Changing the World One Meeting at a Time
26. The Future Never Comes; It's Already Here
References
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
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Posted June 21, 2012
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Praise for Productive Workplaces
"Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice of organization development (OD) since the early 1970's. This book is a wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events, schools of thought, and controversies that have punctuated the field from its beginnings. It should be required reading for every Organization Behavior and Development scholar. Among its many virtues, the book is beautifully written." —Peter Vaill, senior scholar and emeritus professor of ...