Marvin R. Weisbord

Productive Workplaces (eBook, ePUB)

Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century, 25 Year Anniversary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Strategy and Business 2012 Organizational Culture Book of the Year This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people. It covers such topics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change; the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the history behind "getting everybody improving whole systems" as a response to fast change and increasing diversity (not the same as using any particular method). The themes, case studies (many revisited), and models are as relevant as ever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118099087
• Artikelnr.: 37346453

Autorenporträt

The Author Marvin R. Weisbord is an internationally-known consultant, writer, and teacher. He co-founded the Future Search Network to involve volunteers worldwide in building collaborative planning networks in every sector of society. He is the author of classic titles--Organizational Diagnosis and Discovering Common Ground--and co-author (with Sandra Janoff) of Future Search and Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! He has been a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, a visiting research scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, an elected fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science, and a resource faculty member in Seattle University's Organization Systems Renewal Master's program.

Inhaltsangabe

Updates from the Field xxi Foreword by Billie Alban: The Existential
Question xxiii Preface:Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary
Edition xxvii Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces
xxxiii PART ONE Mythology and Managing 1 ONE A Mythology of Organizational
Change 3 TWO How I Learned to Manage by Managing 15 PART TWO Searching for
Productive Workplaces 33 THREE Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors
35 FOUR Taylor Invents a New Profession 59 FIVE Action Research: Lewin
Revises Taylorism 79 SIX Lewin's Legacy to Management 97 SEVEN The
Transition to Experiential Learning 113 EIGHT McGregor and the Roots of
Organization Development 133 NINE Theories X and Y for a New Generation 149
TEN Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace 167 ELEVEN Learning to Work in a
New Paradigm 185 PART THREE Learning from Experience 203 TWELVE Putting
Action Research to Work 207 THIRTEEN Rethinking Diagnosis and Action 221
Case 1. Food Services Turnover: Action Research and Human Resource
Accounting 223 Case 2. Chem Corp R&D: Managers Do Their Own Feedback 230
Case 3. Packaging Plant: Operators Meet Expert Analysis 235 Case 4.
Solcorp: Expertise Can't Fix the Old Paradigm 244 FOURTEEN Managing and
Consulting in Permanent White Water 253 FIFTEEN Involving Everyone to
Improve the Whole 269 Case 5. Medical School: Stakeholders Plan the Future
270 Case 6. Printing Inc.: Getting the Report Out of the Drawer 277 SIXTEEN
Revising Theories of What Works 289 SEVENTEEN Making Systems Thinking
Experiential 303 PART FOUR Integrating the Past into the Present 317
EIGHTEEN 21st Century Managing and Consulting 321 NINETEEN Changing
Everything at Once 343 TWENTY Teamwork in a Fast-Changing World 375 TWENTY
ONE Designing Work for Learning and Self-Control 387 TWENTY TWO Future
Search: The Whole System in the Room 411 TWENTY THREE Cross-Cultural Future
Searching 427 PART F IVE Learning Then and Now 443 TWENTY FOUR Ten Cases
Decades Later: What's Sustainable About "Change"? 445 TWENTY FIVE Changing
the World One Meeting at a Time 459 TWENTY SIX The Future Never Comes, It's
Already Here 471 References 483 Acknowledgments 501 About the Author 505
Index 507