A big issue in research on leadership and organisation change is how, and how much, workers who will carry out the decisions should participate in the decision making process. An answer to this question has become more crucial now that several recent studies have shown that worker participation...

After travelling and living for several years in the third world, I have now returned to America. My journey has taken me through the Andean countries of South America and then to Egypt. From Cairo I travelled East Africa and the Middle East. Recently I've spent seven months crossing Asia, with...

Experience has clearly indicated the need to integrate the people functions of a business with its other operations, present and projected. As a starting place, management must ask itself “how big do we want this firm to be?” and “where will the necessary capital and people come from?”....

This case example is about working in an organisation characterised by conflict and low trust within the top and senior management levels. It sets out the stages of the work that was done, and the resulting, and continuing, positive pay‐offs which have taken place.

This article is the result of a co‐operative research supported by the IAPW, Los Angeles Chapter. The response, over 50 per cent, has been very gratifying. The data were gathered during May‐June, 1980. The author is grateful for the support of the IAPW, Los Angeles Chapter and to the...

After five years of working in the West Indian islands of sun, sea, sand and an occasional rainforest, I can safely conclude that the practice of OD in the English‐speaking Caribbean is not unlike the practice of OD in a North American setting: it holds the same promises, challenges, and...

How far do individual leaders influence Organisation Development? Certainly there have been a number of people who through their ambition, vision and skill have had an enormous impact in building up business organizations. We shall look at the life and career of some of the most renowned...

This article gives you the opportunity to contribute your views on how to proceed with a real “stop‐action” case, which is outlined below. It is hoped that readers will forward to this journal a brief strategy of how they would approach the situation: a selection will be published in a...