Productive Workplaces – Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century 3e 25 Year Anniversary

Updates from the Field xxi
<p>Foreword by Billie Alban: The Existential Question xxiii</p>
<p>Preface:Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition xxvii</p>
<p>Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces xxxiii</p>
<p>PART ONE Mythology and Managing 1</p>
<p>ONE A Mythology of Organizational Change 3</p>
<p>TWO How I Learned to Manage by Managing 15</p>
<p>PART TWO Searching for Productive Workplaces 33</p>
<p>THREE Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors 35</p>
<p>FOUR Taylor Invents a New Profession 59</p>
<p>FIVE Action Research: Lewin Revises Taylorism 79</p>
<p>SIX Lewin s Legacy to Management 97</p>
<p>SEVEN The Transition to Experiential Learning 113</p>
<p>EIGHT McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development 133</p>
<p>NINE Theories X and Y for a New Generation 149</p>
<p>TEN Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace 167</p>
<p>ELEVEN Learning to Work in a New Paradigm 185</p>
<p>PART THREE Learning from Experience 203</p>
<p>TWELVE Putting Action Research to Work 207</p>
<p>THIRTEEN Rethinking Diagnosis and Action 221</p>
<p>Case 1. Food Services Turnover: Action Research and Human Resource Accounting 223</p>
<p>Case 2. Chem Corp R&amp;D: Managers Do Their Own Feedback 230</p>
<p>Case 3. Packaging Plant: Operators Meet Expert Analysis 235</p>
<p>Case 4. Solcorp: Expertise Can t Fix the Old Paradigm 244</p>
<p>FOURTEEN Managing and Consulting in Permanent White Water 253</p>
<p>FIFTEEN Involving Everyone to Improve the Whole 269</p>
<p>Case 5. Medical School: Stakeholders Plan the Future 270</p>
<p>Case 6. Printing Inc.: Getting the Report Out of the Drawer 277</p>
<p>SIXTEEN Revising Theories of What Works 289</p>
<p>SEVENTEEN Making Systems Thinking Experiential 303</p>
<p>PART FOUR Integrating the Past into the Present 317</p>
<p>EIGHTEEN 21st Century Managing and Consulting 321</p>
<p>NINETEEN Changing Everything at Once 343</p>
<p>TWENTY Teamwork in a Fast–Changing World 375</p>
<p>TWENTY ONE Designing Work for Learning and Self–Control 387</p>
<p>TWENTY TWO Future Search: The Whole System in the Room 411</p>
<p>TWENTY THREE Cross–Cultural Future Searching 427</p>
<p>PART F IVE Learning Then and Now 443</p>
<p>TWENTY FOUR Ten Cases Decades Later: What s Sustainable About Change ? 445</p>
<p>TWENTY FIVE Changing the World One Meeting at a Time 459</p>
<p>TWENTY SIX The Future Never Comes, It s Already Here 471</p>
<p>References 483</p>
<p>Acknowledgments 501</p>
<p>About the Author 505</p>
<p>Index 507</p>