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Productive Workplaces: Organizing and Managing forDignity, Meaning, and Community (Paper Edition)
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MARVIN R. WEISBORD is a partner in Block-Petrella-Weisbord, a management consulting firm. He is the author of OrganizationDiagnosis: A Workbook of Theory and Practice (1978).
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Prologue: Discovering Theories X and Y.

Part One: The Search for Productive Workplaces.

1. Scientific Management Revisited: A Tale of Two Taylors.

2. The Consulting Engineer: Taylor Invents a New Profession.

3. Lewin: The Practical Theorist.

4. The Learning Organization: Lewin's Legacy to Management.

5. McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development.

6. The Human Side of Enterprise Revisited: A New Look at Theories X and Y.

7. Undoing Taylorism: Emery, Trist, and the Sociotechnical Revolution.

8. Open Systems and the New Paradigm: How Emery and Trist Redefined the Workplace.

Part Two: Transforming Theory into Practice and Practice into Theory.

9. Adding Action to Research: Lewin's Practice Theory Road Map.

10. Methods of Diagnosis and Action: Taking Snapshots and Making Movies.

11. Rethinking Organizational Improvement: New Perspectives on Consultation.

12. Improving Whole Systems: Alternatives to the Report-in-the-Drawer Phenomenon.

Part Three: Learning and Applying New Practice Theories.

13. "Third Wave" Managing and Consulting: A New Practice Theory.

14. Inventing the Future: Search Strategies for Whole Systems Improvement.

15. Transforming Teamwork: Work Relationships in a Fast-Changing World.

16. Designing Work: New Structures for Learning and Self-Control.

17. Managing and Consulting Beyond the Design Limits: A "Third Wave" Action Project.

Epilogue: Caught Between Paradigms: Where Do We Go from Here?

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