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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lloyd C Williams |
| ISBN: | 1567204228 9781567204223 |
| OCLC Number: | 47625451 |
| Description: | xx, 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The Destruction of Balance in Our Personal and Professional Lives and the Need for a Change -- Statement of the Problem -- Personal and Organizational Movement -- The Challenge to Think Differently: Explorations into Our Organizational Thinking and Its Impact on Our Lives -- Thinking Styles -- Thinking Applications -- Exploring the Concept of Congruence: The Makings of C[superscript 6] -- Psychological Impact on Organizational Actions -- Business Performance Theories -- Humanistic Psychology: Impact on Congruence Theory and Thinking -- The Culture Shift -- The Impact of Ethics on the Issues of Organizational Congruence -- Shareholder-Based Ethical Thinking -- The Impact of Anthropology on the Issue of Organizational Congruence -- The Beginning: Functionalism and Industrial Anthropology -- Organizational Anthropology and Sociology in the Current Era -- The Issues of Congruence and the Need for a New Theory -- Innovating Against the Norm -- Creating Change -- Movement from Dysfunction -- Struggles with the Issues of Congruence -- The Challenge of Thematic Analysis -- The Makings of C[superscript 6]: Building Personal and Organizational Congruence -- Getting Systems Clarity in Our Lives -- Type of Research and Method -- Nature and Sources of Data -- Data Analysis and Interpretation -- Embracing the Art and Hope of Organizational and Professional Collaboration -- Developing a Perspective of Collaborating with One Another -- The Four Capitals -- The Impacts of Collaboration. |
| Responsibility: | Lloyd C. Williams. |
Abstract:
A call for thought balanced against action in the development of programmes for organizational change, and a warning against compartmentalisation and other mistakes that too often lead to innovate themselves into failure. It sees change as a planned and systematic endeavour.
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?[r]efutes the fashionable paradigm of organizational transformation-one based on dominance and control-and argues that innovation results from reworking what has failed in the past.?-Business Horizons Read more...
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