Managing the Dynamics of New Technology: Issues in Manufacturing Management

This comprehensive volume offers a state-of-the-art exploration of the theoretical base and practical applications of organization development. Thoroughly revised and updated, the FIFTH EDITION reflects recent developments in OD usage, its expansion into new areas, current research, and an evaluation of OD's capabilities and limitations.

Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes. The authors present a concise and comprehensive exposition of the theory, practice, and research related to organization development. The Sixth Edition reflects the most recent developments, advances and expansions, and research in the area of OD. Adds and updates new material to provide the most current information available. Strengthens coverage by adding new interventions and new material. Offers a more lively tone and writing style. Emphasizes the everchanging paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail. Sets discussions in the rapidly-evolving contexts of globalization, intensified competition and collaboration, Total Quality Management (TQM) and large-scale organizational change. Provides excellent coverage of the organization and its dynamics for managers and professionals.