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Interpersonal Compatibility and Workgroup Performance
(Sage Publications, 1975)
Schutz hypothesized in his theory of interpersonal relations that more interpersonally compatible groups will exhibit greater productivity. Until recently, this proposition has remained largely untested for workgroups. The ...
Teacher Training Designs for Improving Instruction in Interracial Classrooms
(Sage Publications, 1971)
Teacher training programs are among the variety of efforts utilized to meet the challenge of school desegregation and to improve the quality of interracial education. This article details some of the underlying assumptions ...
Developing a Community-Based Program for Reducing the Social Impact of a Plant Closing
(Sage Publications, 1979)
On January 16, 1975, MN Industries announced their decision to phase out operations at their Great River, Michigan plant. The announcement triggered a course of events that culminated in an innovative social experiment, ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Planned Social Change: A Comparison
(Sage Publications, 1974)
This paper offers a typology of social change efforts based on an analysis of their divergent root assumptions about values and the nature of reality rather than a categorization of their various activities. Analysis of ...
Organizations in a Changing World
(Sage Publications, 1971)
Organizations today are under challenge as a result of the break with traditional authority, the growth of democratic ideology, economic affluence and consequent changes in needs and motive patterns, and the accelerated ...
Bureaucratic Encounters— An Evaluation of Government Services
(Sage Publications, 1976)
The authors have evaluated government services in terms of bureaucratic encounters-the service-seeking transactions reported by 1,431 American adults. Reactions to such transactions are discussed as a joint product of the ...
Differential Effects of Multiple Interventions in an Organization
(Sage Publications, 1975)
An organization development effort spanning several years in one organization is reexamined in order to assess the differential effects of interventions. The findings illustrate how organizational change efforts can have ...