Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 6 Issue 2

The Theory and Practice of Promotion Processes: Part One

Robert Lee

This is the first of two articles about the organisational processes concerned with promotion. In this first article, we present a brief outline of the way promotion is dealt with…

The Values Problem in OD

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…

A Team‐building Workshop as an OD Intervention in Egypt

Kenneth L. Murrell, E.H. Valsan

Better work can be accomplished through team and organisational activity if people are given an opportunity to develop their own skills and approaches to working together. This…

Leadership vs. Managership

Leonard Ackerman

Controversy does little to promote management's understanding of its role in supervising people. Those who are or would be managers need to be flexible and adaptable, and…

Quality Circle Members' Views on Quality Circles

J. Cox, B.G. Dale

A questionnaire sent to facilitators of 12 engineering companies and thence distributed to operational blue‐collar circles resulted in a 68 per cent response rate and established…

Should We Consider a “Contingency” Approach to Participative Management?

D. Neil Ashworth, E. Claiborne Robins

Although many studies contend that there are few advantages to using participation among organisation members, consideration should be given to the contingency approach to…

OD in Central Government: Problems and Prospects

R.G. Harrison

If the management of the civil service is to undergo a real (rather than cosmetic) improvement, action will be needed to generate a major cultural transformation in Whitehall. A…