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Changing Organizations - Practicing Action Training and Research (Paperback, New)
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Changing Organizations - Practicing Action Training and Research (Paperback, New)
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The "Action Training and Research" method of organizational
development, pioneered by Neely Gardner in the 1960s, has become a
classic methodology in public administration, despite the fact that
GardnerAEs work was never published in book form. Raymon R. Bruce
and Sherman M. Wyman have presented the power of GardnerAEs work in
a form that speaks to the context of modern practice and scholarly
thought. GardnerAEs methodology addresses how to change
hierarchically structured public organizations whose management is
rigidly vested in the status quo. He saw participative management
as the key to achieving democratic organizations, reflecting the
democratic values and norms of our society. He felt the devolution
of management power in the organization enables the people doing
the work of the organization to innovate and adapt to their
"customerAEs" changing needs. It is, after all, those who are
producing the goods and delivering the services that are best able
to play a substantial and non-hypocritical role in the decisions
concerning those goods and services, with the result that the most
efficient and economic outcome will occur over time. The Action
Training and Research approach focuses not so much on how to change
organizations, but how to develop organizations that constantly
change themselves. In this approach, each employee is a trainer and
an agent of change. Remarkably, many of GardnerAEs principles are
current todayuparticipative management, self-managed work groups
and employees, outcome budgets, empowering the employee, and
viewing the citizen as customer/owner. All provide a tool for
organizational development in todayAEs public and private
organizations. This volume will serve as a valuable guide to
managers and consultants practicing organizational change in
private and public sectors, at home or abroad. It will serve as an
excellent resource to all students of action research methods.
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