Productive workplaces revisited
Subtitle: dignity, meaning, and community in the 21st century
By: Marvin R. Weisbord.
Contributors: Weisbord, Marvin Ross.
Edition: [2nd ed.].
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Industrial management; Industrial management -- Employee participation; Quality of work life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Updated ed. of author's Productive workplaces.
Table of contents: title: A personal prologue: discovering theories x and y; title: Scientific management revisited: a tale of two Taylors; title: The consulting engineer: Taylor invents a new profession; title: Lewin: the practical theorist; title: The learning organization: Lewin's legacy to management; title: Mcgregor and the roots of organization development; title: The human side of enterprise revisited: a new look at theories x and y; title: Undoing Taylorism: Emery, Trist, and the sociotechnical revolution; title: Open systems and the new paradigm: how Emery and Trist redefined the workplace; title: Adding action to research: Lewin's practice theory road map; title: Methods of diagnosis and action: taking snapshots and making movies; title: Rethinking organizational improvement: new perspectives on consultation; title: Improving whole systems: alternatives to the report-in-the-drawer phenomenon; title: Management training in academic medicine; title: Productivity after Taylor: systems learning replaces expert analysis; title: Managing and consulting in the 21st century; title: Transforming teamwork: working relationships in a fast-changing world; title: Designing work: structure and process for learning and self-control; title: Managing and consulting beyond the design limits: changing everything at once; title: Future search: evolving a whole systems improvement strategy; title: Improving whole systems worldwide; title: How there and then looks from here and now: ten cases revisited; title: Epilogue: still caught between paradigms: where do we go from here?