Writing for organizational development consultants and managers, Golembiewski (political science and management, U. of Georgia) presents an overview of the field that revolves around multiple ironies of OD in practice, ironies that have at their core a central irony: though OD theory reflects major

The argument here is direct, if tentative. Thus, most available evaluative studies agree that OD applications, globally, have substantial success rates, but this seems ironic in light of the common domination of culturally relativistic views. Many observers urge the culture-boundedness of...