Productive Workplaces Revisited
Productive Workplaces Revisited: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

Productive Workplaces Revisited: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century


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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments. About the Author. *Introduction: How to Get the Most from Productive Workplaces Revisited. *1. A Personal Prologue: Discovering Theories X and Y. Part One: The Search for Productive Workplaces. 2. Scientific Management Revisited: A Tale of Two Taylors. 3. The Consulting Engineer: Taylor Invents a New Profession. 4. Lewin: The Practical Theorist. 5. The Learning Organization: Lewin’s Legacy to Management. 6. McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development. 7. The Human Side of Enterprise Revisited: A New Look at Theories X and Y. 8. Undoing Taylorism: Emery, Trist, and the Sociotechnical Revolution. *9. Open Systems and the New Paradigm: How Emery and Trist Redefined the Workplace. Part Two: Transforming Theory into Practice and Practice into Theory. *10. Adding Action to Research: Lewin’s Practice Theory Road Map. *11. Methods of Diagnosis and Action: Taking Snapshots and Making Movies. *12. Rethinking Organizational Improvement: New Perspectives on Consultation. *13. Improving Whole Systems: Alternatives to the Report-in-the-Drawer Phenomenon. *14. Management Training in Academic Medicine. *15. Productivity After Taylor: Systems Learning Replaces Expert Analysis. Part Three: Learning and Applying New Practice Theories. 16. Managing and Consulting in the 21st Century. 17. Transforming Teamwork: Working Relationships in a Fast-Changing World. 18. Designing Work: Structure and Process for Learning and Self-Control. *19. Managing and Consulting Beyond the Design Limits: Changing Everything at Once. *20. Future Search: Evolving a Whole Systems Improvement Strategy. *21. Improving Whole Systems Worldwide. *22. How There and Then Looks from Here and Now: Ten Cases Revisited. *Epilogue: Still Caught Between Paradigms: Where Do We Go from Here? References. Index. * Indicates new chapters or includes updates written for this edition.

About the Author :
Marvin Weisbord is an internationally-known consultant and writer and a co-founder of Future Search Network, a non-profit organization that involves people worldwide in voluntary social, technological, and economic change. He is the author of Productive Workplaces, Organizational Diagnosis, Discovering Common Ground, and coauthor of Future Search: An Action Guide. Marvin Weisbord is an internationally-known consultant and writer and a co-founder of Future Search Network, a non-profit organization that involves people worldwide in voluntary social, technological, and economic change. He is the author of Productive Workplaces, Organizational Diagnosis, Discovering Common Ground, and coauthor of Future Search: An Action Guide.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780787973292
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Pfeiffer & Co ,U.S.
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • No of Pages: 400
  • ISBN-10: 0787973297
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2004
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century


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