Warren Bennis discusses the field of organization development and its needs, applications, unresolved problems, and future. (LRA)

Reviewing the development of organizational development (OD) since 1969, the author describes the emerging values and historical perspectives of the field, provides a cross-section of processes and theories, and clarifies the changing relationship between the organizational development and human resource development fields. (LRA)

Whether university research can be organized and, if so, what organizational measures can be taken to make university research efficient is discussed. It is concluded that a university researcher requires freedom of action for his/her research work and the mass university must shrink to a university for the elite. (Author/MLW)

An approach to an elementary school improvement project features interventions into three key aspects of school life--the classroom, the organizational climate of the school, and school community relations. (JD)

Hypothesizes that: (1) there is much public distrust of business profit-making due to lack of economic education and misunderstanding of business profits; (2) social scientists should study such attitudes and investigate profits; and (3) conflicts between profit-making and government intervention for social goals are inevitable and must be better…

Some new assumptions about educational aid to developing countries are (1) the new international economic order is correcting economic imbalances, (2) a solution to world problems requires international solidarity, and (3) the principles of international relations and cooperation imply diversity of methods and solutions. (ND)

Although the use of date of birth is a method of classifying people has certain legal advantages because it provides a convenient dividing line, it results in misclassification of people into inappropriate categories. (Author/AM)

Examines the record of independent Africa regarding human rights. (Editor/RK)

Extends the theoretical and practical implications of organizational climate research based upon the data from two studies, Sims and LaFollette (1975) and Litwin and Stringer (1968). (Author/RK)

Discusses the importance of climatology and world centers where climatologic research is conducted. (MLH)

Colleges' and universities' commitment to community service is largely lip service. Conditions that would encourage more than just the very committed do not exist on most campuses. Communities are not voids to be organized and filled by the more knowledgeable; they are well-developed, complex, and sophisticated organisms that demand to be…

In response to protest over double-digit college tuition increases, several states have slowed tuition growth. However, this trend threatens the value of prepaid tuition plans for investors. The financial return on prepaid tuition is largely tied to tuition rates, and the programs have been marketed as a hedge against rising tuition. Program…

Examines a number of specific paradoxical situations found in participative organizations; compares them to the paradoxes found in select Zen stories or koans--each set of stories or examples focuses on one or more aspects of empowerment. Reveals, through narrative analysis, counterintuitive ideas on how to understand and cope with organizational…

Explores experiences of six women on two senior academic committees at a South African university to understand how practices in such committees contribute to the marginalization and exclusion of women and to constructions of subjectivity. Discusses how the presence of women on such committees challenges the consciousness of all members. (SLD)