Organization Development provides a forum for the ideas and
experiences of a researcher and consultant concerned with change in
organizations. It shows how choice and change can be guided in a
world now characterized by what the author terms "permanent
temporariness." The book is at heart an approach to increasing the
amount of responsible freedom at work. In this respect, the volume
responds to an avalanche of social criticism that has been directed
at bureaucracy, "organizational America," and the "organizational
ethic." The field at organization development is informed by such
criticisms but transcends it via technology and values that drive
change and choice alike.
Golembiewski is in turn provocative and descriptive. He gives
the reader a hands-on view of the history and character of this
field, aiming at both students and experts, especially those
concerned with ongoing self-renewal among organizations and
business professions. The volume offers chapters on scope, methods,
professionalization, and certification resting on a code of ethics
and peer review. The field covered by this volume has become in the
last thirty-five years a worldwide phenomenon. Organization
development appears in some form in virtually all organized life:
business, government and education, health, public and private
sector alike.
This work draws special attention to its cross-cultural
features. It can be used in practice or apprenticeship, in
workshops or in theory constructions. Golembiewski is the premier
theorist in the political science of organizational analysis. This
core volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the
field that has come to be known as organizational development. This
book will appeal to a large and growing set of audiences:
professionals and students at in-training workshops and
conferences, as well as those taking academic courses.
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