Productive workplaces revisited : dignity, meaning, and community in the 21st century

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Title:

Productive workplaces revisited : dignity, meaning, and community in the 21st century

Author:

Weisbord, Marvin Ross.

ISBN:

9780787971175

Personal Author:

Weisbord, Marvin Ross.

Edition:

[2nd ed.].

Publication Information:

San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass ; Chichester : John Wiley, 2004.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 512 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Previous ed.: Productive workplaces, 1987.

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

A personal prologue: discovering theories x and y -- Scientific management revisited: a tale of two Taylors -- The consulting engineer: Taylor invents a new profession -- Lewin: the practical theorist -- The learning organization: Lewin's legacy to management -- Mcgregor and the roots of organization development -- The human side of enterprise revisited: a new look at theories x and y -- Undoing Taylorism: Emery, Trist, and the sociotechnical revolution -- Open systems and the new paradigm: how Emery and Trist redefined the workplace -- Adding action to research: Lewin's practice theory road map -- Methods of diagnosis and action: taking snapshots and making movies -- Rethinking organizational improvement: new perspectives on consultation -- Improving whole systems: alternatives to the report-in-the-drawer phenomenon -- Management training in academic medicine -- Productivity after Taylor: systems learning replaces expert analysis -- Managing and consulting in the 21st century -- Transforming teamwork: working relationships in a fast-changing world -- Designing work: structure and process for learning and self-control -- Managing and consulting beyond the design limits: changing everything at once -- Future search: evolving a whole systems improvement strategy -- Improving whole systems worldwide -- How there and then looks from here and now: ten cases revisited -- Epilogue: still caught between paradigms: where do we go from here?

Subject Term:

Industrial management.

Industrial management -- Employee participation.

Quality of work life.

Added Author:

Weisbord, Marvin Ross. Productive workplaces.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley046/2003024760.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley041/2003024760.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024760.html

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In Productive Workplaces Revisited , Marvin Weisbord takes the next step in exploring effective strategies for improving workplace productivity through dignity, meaning, and community. Remarkably, in this new edition the author revisits the case studies from the first edition, Productive Workplaces, to show the long-term effects of OD interventions -- twenty-plus years after the fact and provides invaluable insights for practitioner and student alike. In five new chapters, Weisbord reinterprets his systems work in health care and steel-making, describes how "future search," his method for "getting everybody improving whole systems," has crossed cultures on five continents, and summarizes his learning from following up cases decades later. This edition also presents in-depth case studies of organizations that have used these techniques to increase output, cut costs, create strategic plans, manage conflict between functions, and more.