Titlebook: Experimenting with Organizational Life; The Action Research Alfred W. Clark Book 1976 Tavistock Institute of Human Relations 1976 Action.A

legacy

Complementary Roles in Action Researchagements. The roles emerged as part of a complex program dealing with different aspects of industrial democracy. The program has lasted some ten years and has been sponsored by the main organizations of industry, government, and science (Emery and Thorsrud, 1969; Thorsrud, 1970; Trist, 1970a and Cha

Instrumental

Action Research in a Minisocietyminisociety is that it allows experimental behavior, mutual exploration, and confrontation between groups. Since the groups make up a microcosm of society, the themes that engage them and the dynamics that arise between them can throw new light on societal problems. The main theme illustrated here i

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烤架

A Large Organization Consults Its Staffof the consultation exercise, ICI asked the Human Resources Centre of the Tavistock Institute to carry out a survey of staff attitudes. It is hoped that the account of the survey in this chapter will contribute to the developing knowledge that social science practitioners and client organizations ha

Processes

Group Feedback Analysis as a Method of Action Research, is not enough. It will have to be followed by action. Many people who talk about change think of it as applying to others rather than to themselves. It is natural that organizational change should tend to be welcomed by those who will benefit and resisted by those who will have to give up establis