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Peer reviewedTorvatn, Hans – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1999
Uses three case studies from Norwegian industrial modernization programs (a formative evaluation, a summative evaluation, and an additionality analysis) to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation tool called "chains of reasoning." Chains of reasoning uses text and a graphic image to present program activities and goals.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation
Download full textQvale, Thoralf Ulrik – 1974
The Industrial Democracy Programme (IDP) of Norway seeks to create conditions for a self-supporting change process in industry, rather than implementing a ready-made model, believing that it is more valuable for employees to learn to change their organization than for the specific solution to be found. The central problems, therefore, have been to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Democracy, Experimental Programs
Wedderburn, Dorothy – 1968
Forty case studies made by research teams of independents or governmental agencies in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States were analyzed to provide managements and trade unions with illustrations of present systems of technical and manpower changes at the enterprise level and to describe the…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Field Studies
Barkin, Solomon, Ed. – 1967
The 29 case studies in this report seek to define the policies and practices followed by firms in programing technological change and manpower adjustments. The purpose of the report is to make these policies and practices more broadly known and to extend the range of effective adjustments provided by individual managements. The inquiries were…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Field Studies
Thorsrud, Einar – 1974
Participation in industrial change is a hot issue in countries experiencing rapid social change. Major problems include the number of large, highly centralized organizations; people's changing values; work-education and industrial-welfare gaps; the absence of forms to replace unacceptable authoritarian control; the effects of electronic…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Democracy
Ebeltoft, Arne – 1974
Organization Development (OD), conceived by behavioral scientists to humanize psychological aspects of working conditions which deprive employees of opportunities to develop and utilize their inherent resources, is based on the assumption that human resources can be released if people are given other conditions for work and cooperation. There is…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Developed Nations, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
