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This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people.

Praise for Productive Workplaces "Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice of organization development (OD) since the early 1970s. This book is a wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events, schools of thought, and controversies that have punctuated the fie... MOREld from its beginnings. It should be required reading for every Organization Behavior and Development scholar. Among its many virtues, the book is beautifully written." -Peter Vaill, senior scholar and emeritus professor of management, Antioch University Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change; author, Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water, and Spirited Leading and Learning "During my 33-year career, I have been involved in publishing well over 1,000 books. Productive Workplaces is certainly among the top five most influential in terms of its impact on the organizations in which I worked, as well as on my personal leadership, and management concepts, and practices." -Steven Piersanti, president and publisher, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.; formerly president, Jossey-Bass Publishers "As a professor in graduate studies in leadership and business psychology, I see my role as passing on to a new generation the values and lessons learned from a 25-year career in organizational effectiveness. Marvin Weisbord is a master whose wisdom I encourage my students to seek out." -Connie S. Fuller, Ph.D., associate chair and assistant professor, Business Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology; coauthor, Bridging the Boomer-Xer Gap: Creating Authentic Teams for High Performance at Work "If somebody asks me to name just one good book on management, or organizational development, or social psychology, I give them the same answer: Productive Workplaces. It addresses the heady topic of meaning and dignity in work with writing that is as engaging as a well-written novel." -Gil Steil, Gil Steil Associates, Boston, Massachusetts

Strategy and Business 2012 Organizational Culture Book of the Year

This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people. It covers such topics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change; the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the history behind �getting everybody improving whole systems� as a response to fast change and increasing diversity (not the same as using any particular method). The themes, case studies (many revisited), and models are as relevant as ever.

Updates from the Field xxi Foreword by Billie Alban: The Existential Question	p. xxiii
Preface:Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition	p. xxvii
Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces	p. xxxiii
Mythology and Managing	p. 1
A Mythology of Organizational Change	p. 3
How I Learned to Manage by Managing	p. 15
Searching for Productive Workplaces	... MOREp. 33
Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors	p. 35
Taylor Invents a New Profession	p. 59
Action Research: Lewin Revises Taylorism	p. 79
Lewin's Legacy to Management	p. 97
The Transition to Experiential Learning	p. 113
McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development	p. 133
Theories X and Y for a New Generation	p. 149
Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace	p. 167
Learning to Work in a New Paradigm	p. 185
Learning from Experience	p. 203
Putting Action Research to Work	p. 207
Rethinking Diagnosis and Action	p. 221
Food Services Turnover: Action Research and Human Resource Accounting	p. 223
Chem Corp R&D: Managers Do Their Own Feedback	p. 230
Packaging Plant: Operators Meet Expert Analysis	p. 235
Solcorp: Expertise Can't Fix the Old Paradigm	p. 244
Managing and Consulting in Permanent White Water	p. 253
Involving Everyone to Improve the Whole	p. 269
Medical School: Stakeholders Plan the Future	p. 270
Printing Inc.: Getting the Report Out of the Drawer	p. 277
Revising Theories of What Works	p. 289
Making Systems Thinking Experiential	p. 303
Integrating the Past into the Present	p. 317
21st Century Managing and Consulting	p. 321
Changing Everything at Once	p. 343
Teamwork in a Fast-Changing World	p. 375
Designing Work for Learning and Self-Control	p. 387
Future Search: The Whole System in the Room	p. 411
Cross-Cultural Future Searching	p. 427
Learning Then and Now	p. 443
Ten Cases Decades Later: What's Sustainable About "Change"?	p. 445
Changing the World One Meeting at a Time	p. 459
The Future Never Comes, It's Already Here	p. 471
References	p. 483
Acknowledgments	p. 501
About the Author	p. 505
Index	p. 507
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