ABSTRACT
This book identifies nine guidelines for the conceptual development of public administration. It shows how one specific approach—the laboratory approach to organization development (OD)—can facilitate the development of public administration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|42 pages
An Organization Development Application At The Top
Toward Creating a New, Effective, Open Giant
chapter 3|19 pages
Training and Organization Development in Five Cities
SIGN, or Suburban Intergovernmental Network for Management Development
chapter 4|24 pages
Individuals Seeking to Build New Work Relationships
An Action Design for a Critical Intervention
chapter 5|18 pages
Organization Development and Learning
Optimum Discrepancies and Their Role in Basic Research
chapter 7|17 pages
Organization Development and Intervening Variables
Social Desirability as Critical in Basic and Applied Research
chapter 8|19 pages
Public Administration and Organization Development
OD as Institutional and Generic
