Organizational Change: Sourcebook I: Cases in Organizational Development

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B. Lubin, L. D. Goodstein, A. W. Lubin
Psychology Press, Mar 18, 2014 - Psychology - 176 pages
First published in 1984. Starting out with the exploration of the value of the case study, this volume looks at organisational change, and presents nine case studies of planned change on the organizational or community level. Each is an in-depth analysis prepared by the consultants who were actively engaged in the change activity.
 

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Contents

Introduction to Cases in Organization Development
1
A Communication Package and Some Results
7
A LaboratoryConsultation Model for Organization Change
23
A Systems Approach to Organization Development
41
Using Research to Guide an Organization Development Project
67
Toward a SelfRenewing School
101
A Structural Approach to Organizational Change
125
A Case Study
151
Head Start Parents in Participant Groups
179
A Structural Approach to Organization Development in a University Professional School
209
Contributors
227
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About the author (2014)

Bernard Lubin. Ph.D .is professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, previously was on the faculty at the University of Houston and at Indiana University Medical Center. Leonard D. Goodstein. Ph.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology, Arizona State Univer­sity, Tempe, was formerly on the faculty at the Univer­sity of Iowa and at the University of Cincinnati. Alice W. Lubin is currently a training consultant with the Greater Kansas City Mental Health Foundation. She has taught in the District of Columbia Public School System and served as chairman of a department of special education.

Bibliographic information

TitleOrganizational Change: Sourcebook I: Cases in Organizational Development
EditorsB. Lubin, L. D. Goodstein, A. W. Lubin
PublisherPsychology Press, 2014
ISBN1317770757, 9781317770756
Length176 pages
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Psychology / General
Psychology / Industrial & Organizational Psychology
  
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