Organization Development and the Trade Unions

Abstract

As managements increasingly apply behavioural science findings in the development of their organizations, the opportunities grow for organization development techniques to be introduced in the field of industrial relations. In discussing themes for student projects and staff seminars during the Autumn of 1973, we thought that this would be an interesting area to consider. Because there is relatively little written about organization development and industrial relations we felt that there was a need to undertake some research in the area. As a starting point, we chose to look at union attitudes to organization development, and this article describes the investigation we carried out and discusses some implications which seem to arise from our findings.

Citation

Gill, H.S., Pedler, M.J. and Shipton, J.D. (1975), "Organization Development and the Trade Unions", Personnel Review, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 11-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055279