... workforce. Race training, especially racism awareness training, has often been given a key role. Organisation development (OD) approaches have not tended to be influential, despite the origins of OD in addressing practical problems of race relations. Drawing on empirical work with assessment procedures...

... for managers, consultants and teachers of organisational behaviour. Their use of the construct of levels differs from the common use of organisational levels in the organisational behaviour and organisation development literature. Blake and Mouton[2,3,4] present a classification system of consultation...

...H.W. TenDam Organisational development is a well‐known and important methodology used by experts in group dynamics and organisational behaviour for improving groups and organisations. It is a process‐oriented approach of change and is believed to be more effective and valuable than the classic...

...Lisa A. Mainiero As organisational development (OD) matures into an identifiable profession, concerns about the adequacy of training processes for members of the profession have emerged. The apprenticeship period serves a critical function in helping the novice learner discover what is expected...

... Limited 1986 France Organisational Development Research OD Practices in France: Part II by A. Desreumaux French Consultants' OD Practices In this second part of our survey, we shall analyse the consultants' practices more precisely, as regards interventions which they themselves describe...

...A.R. Cahoon; J.I.A. Rowney Organisation development encompasses a host of strategies ideally reflecting a systematic approach aimed at more closely linking the human resources and potential of an organisation to its technology, structure and management processes. The needs of managers at various...

...John Edmonstone For the organisation development practitioner the problem of value is to do with modes of conduct or desired end‐states and the movement towards these. The alternatives appear to be for the OD practitioner to make the value base as explicit as possible, or to act as third party...

...Hana Tomasek This brief overview of American literature dealing with OD in schools points out that, below university level, education is lagging behind today's accelerated social development. © MCB UP Limited 1983 Organisational Development Education Organization Development...