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Alternative Professional Roles in Health Care Delivery: Leadership Patterns in Self-Help Groups
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1985)
The increasing professionalization of health care delivery systems, improved client awareness, funding cutbacks, and an emphasis on voluntarism have led recipients of health services to turn increasingly to self-help groups. ...
Problems with Research by Organizational Scholars on Issues of Race and Ethnicity
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1990)
Despite a growing need for knowledge about the effects of race and ethnicity in organizations, relatively little research on these issues has been performed and few research reports have been published in the major management ...
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, ...
Resistance to Research and Research Utilization: The Death and Life of a Feedback Attempt
(Sage Publications, 1967)
Some of the problems scientists encounter in making their feedback of research findings relevant and useful to educational practitioners are explored in this paper. Feedback of research findings is considered as the ...
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 ...
A Prefatory Essay on the Future Administration of Human Services
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1985)
Fatigue of the Spirit in Organizational Theory and Organization Development: Reconnaissance Man as Remedy
(Sage Publications, 1990)
The charge that the OD Division of the Academy of Management is a group from which "the zest is gone" is explored in an address to this division. Several images are presented regarding ways of observing and learning. OD ...
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 ...