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Volume 10, Issue 1
1 January 1991
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Research Article| January 01 1991

Management Development for an Organisation in Transition Available to Purchase

John F. McKenna;
John F. McKenna
California State University, Chico, USA
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Richard A. Yeider
Richard A. Yeider
University of California, Irvine, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7492
Print ISSN: 0262-1711
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Journal of Management Development (1991) 10 (1): 54–63.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000001374

A case analysis of an organisational development intervention designed to reduce the reliance of the case organisation′s management on an “administrative system”. The intervention process followed a modified action‐research model and clearly met its original change objective.

Keywords:
Action research, Management development, Organizational development, Organizational change
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