Productive Workplaces: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition, 25 Year Anniversary
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Productive Workplaces Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition, 25 Year Anniversary

By Marvin R. Weisbord
Pfeiffer December 2011

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ISBN-13
9780470900178
Publisher
Pfeiffer
Publication
December 2011
Format
Hardback , 576 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Praise for Productive Workplaces
 
"Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice of organization development (OD) since the early 1970's. This book is a wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events, schools of thought, and controversies that have punctuated the field from its beginnings. It should be required reading for every Organization Behavior and Development scholar. Among its many virtues, the book is beautifully written." —Peter Vaill, senior scholar and emeritus professor of management, Antioch University Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change; author, Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water, and Spirited Leading and Learning
 
"During my 33-year career, I have been involved in publishing well over 1,000 books. Productive Workplaces is certainly among the top five most influential in terms of its impact on the organizations in which I worked, as well as on my personal leadership, and management concepts, and practices." —Steven Piersanti, president and publisher, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.; formerly president, Jossey-Bass Publishers
 
"As a professor in graduate studies in leadership and business psychology, I see my role as passing on to a new generation the values and lessons learned from a 25-year career in organizational effectiveness. Marvin Weisbord is a master whose wisdom I encourage my students to seek out." —Connie S. Fuller, Ph.D., associate chair and assistant professor, Business Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology; coauthor, Bridging the Boomer-Xer Gap: Creating Authentic Teams for High Performance at Work
 
"If somebody asks me to name just one good book on management, or organizational development, or social psychology, I give them the same answer: Productive Workplaces. It addresses the heady topic of meaning and dignity in work with writing that is as engaging as a well-written novel." —Gil Steil, Gil Steil Associates, Boston, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Updates from the Field xxi

Foreword by Billie Alban: The Existential Question xxiii
Preface:Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition xxvii
Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces xxxiii
 
PART ONE Mythology and Managing 1
 
ONE A Mythology of Organizational Change 3
TWO How I Learned to Manage by Managing 15
 
PART TWO Searching for Productive Workplaces 33
 
THREE Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors 35
FOUR Taylor Invents a New Profession 59
FIVE Action Research: Lewin Revises Taylorism 79
SIX Lewin’s Legacy to Management 97
SEVEN The Transition to Experiential Learning 113
EIGHT McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development 133
NINE Theories X and Y for a New Generation 149
TEN Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace 167
ELEVEN Learning to Work in a New Paradigm 185
 
PART THREE Learning from Experience 203
 
TWELVE Putting Action Research to Work 207
THIRTEEN Rethinking Diagnosis and Action 221
Case 1. Food Services Turnover: Action Research and Human Resource Accounting 223
Case 2. Chem Corp R&D: Managers Do Their Own Feedback 230
Case 3. Packaging Plant: Operators Meet Expert Analysis 235
Case 4. Solcorp: Expertise Can’t Fix the Old Paradigm 244
FOURTEEN Managing and Consulting in Permanent White Water 253
FIFTEEN Involving Everyone to Improve the Whole 269
Case 5. Medical School: Stakeholders Plan the Future 270
Case 6. Printing Inc.: Getting the Report Out of the Drawer 277
SIXTEEN Revising Theories of What Works 289
SEVENTEEN Making Systems Thinking Experiential 303
 
PART FOUR Integrating the Past into the Present 317
 
EIGHTEEN 21st Century Managing and Consulting 321
NINETEEN Changing Everything at Once 343
TWENTY Teamwork in a Fast-Changing World 375
TWENTY ONE Designing Work for Learning and Self-Control 387
TWENTY TWO Future Search: The Whole System in the Room 411
TWENTY THREE Cross-Cultural Future Searching 427
 
PART FIVE Learning Then and Now 443
 
TWENTY FOUR Ten Cases Decades Later: What’s Sustainable About “Change”? 445
TWENTY FIVE Changing the World One Meeting at a Time 459
TWENTY SIX The Future Never Comes, It’s Already Here 471
 
References 483
Acknowledgments 501
About the Author 505
Index 507
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