Counter to the results of a literature review, a survey of 281 service company employees found that high management support did not encourage employee participation in career development, but negative management attitudes did. Career satisfaction was correlated with management support and attitudes. (SK)

Multiple perspectives of researchers on careers fragment the field. Dominant assumptions and approaches are not appropriate for current conditions, such as the changing nature of work. The concept of career is no longer an individual, linear social phenomenon but a contextual/relational, protean social construction. (Author/SK)

A theory-practice model for work-based learning is premised on the idea that learning can be acquired through practice. It incorporates three strategies that can be sequenced: action learning, action science, and communities of practice. (SK)

Reports on the use of organization development consultation at a middle school to enhance the process of implementing shared governance. Improvements in many aspects of organizational functioning were reported in follow-up interviews. Presents organizational development consultation as a new role for school social workers, adding value to the…

Identifies barriers and facilitators to the implementation of patient education in community pharmacies and classifies these barriers and facilitators into the diffusion stages of Rogers'"Innovations in Organizations" model. Discusses the implementation of patient education activities that require individual and organizational change in…

Focuses on a survey of 10 questions that the author gave to all tenured and tenure-track faculty members in English at the University of Louisville. Notes that the questions focused on the perceived positive and negative results of a major cultural change (faculty teaching first-year composition) for the department, the composition program, the…

Presents a case study of major organizational change at Carleton University, a mid-sized (17,000 students) university in Ontario, Canada. Concludes that while formal internal processes may vary from one institution to another, many of the tenets of change theory applicable to other organizations also apply in universities. Suggests lessons about…

An ethnographic study of organizational change in a bank considered issues surrounding virtual teamwork in virtual organizations. Problems in communication, management control, and approach to customer service were found. An underlying cause is that "virtual" work involves "real" customers, workers, and problems. (Contains 36 references.) (SK)

Examines the claim that it is necessary to change an organization's culture in order to bring about organizational change. Considers the purported causal relationship between the role of the leader and organizational learning and develops the notion of culture as cognitive process based on research in cultural anthropology and cognitive science.…

Discusses information technology and human performance technology (HPT) and considers the potential of performance technology to improve business results. Topics include the strategic value of HPT in organizational governance, developing leadership capability, team building, fostering collaboration, and corporate culture change; and the need to…

Discusses two vying interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights (intellectual freedom seen as pure neutrality or as social responsibility) and highlights conflicts that these views created within the American Library Association (ALA) from 1967 to 1973. Outlines early history of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of Libraries and the…

Describes child protection systems in England and ongoing changes in their services. Considers effects of a market force approach on the organization of child protection services in relation to coordination versus fragmentation and profit versus professionalism. Concludes that the idea that a market force approach to child protection will lead to…

Describes the efforts undertaken and lessons learned by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation as it began the transformation of its agency culture in keeping with a total quality management model. Discusses the struggle encountered by the agency in making the personal transformation necessary for the transformation of the…

Notes that organizational learning has become a popular initiative for responding to unstable environmental conditions. Offers a conception of mentoring as a dialogic practice and as a core relational practice for learning organizations. Argues that dialogic mentoring has advantages over both conventional mentoring relationships and extant…

Three models were used to interpret sacred texts from major religions in terms of spiritual values in organizations: Marcic's Five Dimensions of Work, Hatcher's Spiritual Growth Framework, and Fowler's stages of spiritual development. All three helped students understand the connections between the world of work and the spirit. (SK)