Asserts that universities, as providers of management education, have an opportunity and critical responsibility to adopt the practices of learning organizations. Suggests strategies for developing learning organizations in British universities. (SK)

Interviews with female employees of a clothing company moving to lean production and teamwork indicate that Taylorism is being reinvented in the contemporary workplace. Restructuring produces higher productivity but greater work pressures and lower wages, despite rhetoric about autonomy, job satisfaction, and workplace democracy. (Contains 57…

Challenges confronting preparation of human resource development (HRD) practitioners include competing views of what drives practice, the changing nature of workplaces, and diverse findings on the role of HRD practitioners. HRD preparation should therefore be grounded in the context of practice, address traditional training activities, and foster…

States that organizational values (a subset of organizational culture) provide behavioral guidelines for employees in organizations. Proposes that metaphorical imagery can heighten the usefulness of corporate values as behavioral guideposts. Notes managerial implications for change and suggests a process for change. (PA)

Suggests that degradation of labor associated with automation and downsizing produces employee stress and frustration and leads to workplace violence. Concludes that violent incidents in the U.S. Post Office result when work experience degrades a person's identity or sense of control in a time of rapid change. (SK)

Discussion of changes in organizational environments focuses on nonbureaucratic, or nontraditional, organizations, and the role of information technology. A model of a nontraditional organizational design is described and results of a pilot study of the role of information technology in nontraditional organizations are presented. Contains 114…

Of the 14 organizational values ranked by a majority of 146 New Mexico Cooperative Extension educators as extremely valued, 9 were extremely evident in organizational policies and procedures. A values audit such as this forms an important initial step in strategic planning. (SK)

Examines three cases in which changed political or other circumstances caused the Cooperative Extension Service to change its way of providing local leaders with accountability information. Suggests the establishment of ongoing accountability systems to ensure organizational protection when political or other situational changes occur. (Author/JOW)

Presents a case study of how the University of Salford in Greater Manchester has established cultural change within the institution by embedding academic enterprise. Describes the "enterprise university," sets Salford within this context and that of higher education generally, and, drawing on two examples, illustrates how the university…

Conceptualizes learning within experiential and constructivist perspectives as a complex interplay of orientation, elaboration, and integration. Illustrates the model with the case of a training program aimed at organizational change. Identifies tensions between the three components and the trainer's role. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

A case study of automation in the British baking industry illustrates several perspectives: (1) technological change as inevitable due to external market forces; (2) selection and implementation of technology as an outcome of strategic choices; and (3) awareness of the need for change as part of a political process in which choices are made among…

Organizations that rely heavily on a flexible work force will lose the ability to attract and retain skilled workers with idiosyncratic knowledge. There is an interdependent relationship between the quality of employee relations and the capacity to use the idiosyncratic knowledge of a work force. (Contains 61 references.) (SK)

Discusses what it means to a training and development department when an organization changes to a global focus. Describes the following trends: an increase of globalization and diversity, an increased demand for just-in-time learning, and increased demand for short-term profits. (JOW)

Presents diversity as a resource to create a high performing work culture that enables all employees to do their best work. Distinguishes between diversity and inclusion, describes a model for diagnosing an organization's culture, sets forth steps for implementing a organizational change, and discusses the human resource professional's role.…

A longitudinal study of factors influencing success or failure of workplace innovations such as teamwork was carried out in two German firms. Success factors included having a team mentor; integrating training, supervision, and implementation of the innovation; and training trainers. (SK)