Organization Development: Ideas and Issues

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Organization Development provides a forum for the ideas and experiences of a researcher and consultant concerned with change in organizations. It shows how choice and change can be guided in a world now characterized by what the author terms "permanent temporariness." The book is at heart an approach to increasing the amount of responsible freedom at work. In this respect, the volume responds to an avalanche of social criticism that has been directed at bureaucracy, "organizational America," and the "organizational ethic." The field at organization development is informed by such criticisms but transcends it via technology and values that drive change and choice alike. Golembiewski is in turn provocative and descriptive. He gives the reader a hands-on view of the history and character of this field, aiming at both students and experts, especially those concerned with ongoing self-renewal among organizations and business professions. The volume offers chapters on scope, methods, professionalization, and certification resting on a code of ethics and peer review. The field covered by this volume has become in the last thirty-five years a worldwide phenomenon. Organization development appears in some form in virtually all organized life: business, government and education, health, public and private sector alike. This work draws special attention to its cross- cultural features. It can be used in practice or apprenticeship, in workshops or in theory constructions. Golembiewski is the premier theorist in the political science of organizational analysis. This core volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the field that has come to be known as organizational development. This book will appeal to a large and growing set of audiences: professionals and students at in-training workshops and conferences, as well as those taking academic courses. About The Author Robert T. Golembiewski is distinguished research professor emeritus at the University of Georgia. He has authored or edited numerous articles in scholarly journals. Table of Contents Part I What OD Is, and Aspires To : Introduction>br> "A Rose by Any Other Name . . .". OD? OE? OI? HRD? Process Observation as the Key: Where and When to Practice Skills OD as Stool: Ruminations about a Metaphor Why OD? Putting Values in Their Prominent Place OD as Increasing Responsible Freedom in Organizations OT and OD: Transformation, Fine Tuning, or Rechristening? 7. Some Differences between OD Generations, I: Four Generations and a Few Differentiae Some Differences between OD Generations, II: Socialization and Lode Stars Two Faces of OD: Populism and Elitism OD’s Near-Term Destiny: Professional Maturation or Time’s Dumpster? The Yellow Envelope on the Floor: Does Paying the Piper Imply Calling the Tune? Is OD Universalistic or Particularistic? Some Similarities between Private- and Public-Sector Consultation Is OD Narrowly Culture-Bound? Well, Yes; and Then. No Part II What OD Might Become: Introduction "So, What about Success Rates?" An Even Better-Kept Secret: Success Rates in Third- World Applications "We Are Not Here to Reinvent the Status Quo""You Can’t Be a Beacon . . - ," I "You Can’t Be a Beacon ...," II Is QWL OD’s Charge? Or Vice Versa? Why It Matters Who Gets Custody Judas Goats and Providing or Withholding Consultation Value Complementarity and Providing or Withholding Consultation Toward Enhancing OD’s Future Toward a Contingency View of Certification: Professionalism, Performance, and Protectionism Toward OD Certification: "It’s Not My Dog, Mister" Toward a National Institute of Planned and Peaceful Change: Visioning about Our Future Part III Perspectives on Moving from Here to There: Introduction "A Statement of Values and Ethics Not Whether to Market, But What Does OD Sufficiently Honor Its Past? The Fund for Displaced ODers What In Search of Excellence Still Needs to Seek, and How OD Can Help Some Unintended Consequences of Intervening "Where the Pain Is" "Promise Not to Tell": A Critical View of ‘Confidentiality" in Consultation The OD Intervenor: Wonder Woman/Superman, or On Call Facilitator? ODers as Servants of Power: Temptations and Countertendencies Name Index Subject Index