ABSTRACT
Reading only a few current management magazines is sufficient to indicate which of the various techniques or theories for improving the effectiveness of individuals or organizations are in fashion. It is perhaps inevitable that writers, advisers and people whose profession is helping organizations themselves become relatively easily interested in new or exciting theories and techniques. Unfortunately, the victims of their enthusiasm are often those whom they seek to help. Many advisers and consultants are known to tour the country with a solution in their briefcase looking for a problem to fit it, and often they find such a problem whether or not it really exists. Similarly, in some organizations there are training officers who are tempted to see problems which are not there simply to try out a new technique which particularly appeals to them.
