An account of structural evolutions to the present, with suggestions for viable approaches in the future. (Editor)

Describes the Employee/Corporate Human Objectives" model, with suggestions for dealing with now generation" workers. (Editor/SP)

Describes the origins and developmental requirements of the Informant Panel, an inexpensive, time-efficient, retrospective method for obtaining consequently meaningful information needed to guide organizational change projects. The panel combines features of the Nominal Group and Delphi Techniques. (WAS)

Reviews the concepts and assumptions underlying the Scanlon Plan, an approach to organizational development based on participatory management. The approach is summarized using four concepts (identity, participation, equity, and managerial competence) which can create a climate of mutual respect and confidence. (JAC)

Relates leadership needs in corporate organizations with the experiential learning in Outward Bound courses. Explores the value of Outward Bound inductive learning in developing management and leadership potential on three organizational levels--supervisory, middle management, and executive. (PD)

In this article an account is given of work undertaken by an internal organization development (OD) unit within the United Kingdom's National Health Service, in the area of joint consultation within a health authority. Some thoughts are also presented on the relationship between OD practice and the field of industrial relations. (SSH)

The author explains why he favors a systems-oriented approach to organizational development that conceives of the total organization of a system or a family of systems and develops all of them comprehensively. The four systems in this approach are technical, social, administrative, and strategic. (CT)

Suggests that organizational development consultants should use more explicit representations of the problems they work on with client teams. Offers an approach to overcome difficulties and provides a strategy for intervening in the processes of problem definition in teams. (Author)

Findings of research indicate four institutional conditions that may facilitate adoption of innovations such as a women's studies program: (1) faculty strongly supporting innovation; (2) large size and structural diversity; (3) need for trend-setter schools to maintain their positions; and (4) diverse clientele and broad educational mandate. (MSE)

Determined differences between supervisor's self-perception of leadership style and subordinate's perception of that style. A significant difference was found between the magnitude with which supervisors perceived themselves as using the high task/high relationship style and the degree to which subordinates perceived their supervisors as using it.…

Shows how reorganizing the newspaper staff into autonomous work groups may improve individual job satisfaction. (RL)

Reviews the organizational elements model of Kaufman and English, which uses internal factors alone as the basis for planning, and argues for reversing its order of consideration to achieve more useful results; i.e., to start with outcomes (societal requirements) and then move back through outputs, products, processes, and inputs. (Author/JD)

The authors discuss ways to define a company's position on productivity, and explain productivity concepts. They describe a problem cause/solution set matrix with which to identify accurately the most probable cause of productivity problems. (SK)

A set of propositions on organizational stratification drawn from functional theory is examined. Data are used from 38 departments of a large university as well as from individual faculty survey responses. It is suggested that organizational features act as symbolic devices which inform others that a given organization is a competent member of its…

Addresses questions to deans of community services related to faculty, instructional and organizational development. Recommends 11 strategies for improving instruction through faculty orientations, faculty task forces, teacher resource centers, faculty survival guides, student service centers, mission and management councils, division newsletters,…