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Offers specific how-to instructions for involving employees in designing new work methods and developing strategies for organizational improvement. Presents in-depth case studies of organizations that have used these techniques.

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• Prologue: Discovering Theories X and Y
• Part 1 The Search for Productive Workplaces
• 1 Scientific Management Revisited: A Tale of Two Taylors
• 2 The Consulting Engineer: Taylor Invents a New Profession
• 3 Lewin: The Practical Theorist
• 4 The Learning Organization: Lewin2s Legacy to Management
• 5 McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development
• 6 The Human Side of Enterprise Revisited: A New Look at Theories X and Y
• 7 Undoing Taylorism: Emery, Trist, and the Sociotechnical Revolution
• 8 Open Systems and the New Paradigm: How Emery and Trist Redefined the Workplace
• Part 2 Transforming Theory into Practice and Practice into Theory
• 9 Adding Action to Research: Lewin2s Practice Theory Road Map
• 10 Methods of Diagnosis and Action: Taking Snapshots and Making Movies
• 11 Rethinking Organizational Improvement: New Perspectives on Consultation
• 12 Improving Whole Systems: Alternatives to the Report-in-the-Drawer Phenomenon
• Part 3 Learning and Applying New Practice Theories
• 13 "Third Wave" Managing and Consulting: A New Practice Theory
• 14 Inventing the Future: Search Strategies for Whole Systems Improvement
• 15 Transforming Teamwork: Work Relationships in a Fast-Changing World
• 16 Designing Work: New Structures for Learning and Self-Control
• 17 Managing and Consulting Beyond the Design Limits: A "Third Wave" Action Project
• Epilogue: Caught Between Paradigms: Where Do We Go from Here?

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MARVIN R. WEISBORD is a partner in Block-Petrella-Weisbord, a management consulting firm. He is the author of OrganizationDiagnosis: A Workbook of Theory and Practice (1978).