ABSTRACT

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1963 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

part 1|25 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|7 pages

The Consultant Role

chapter 2|16 pages

Concepts and Assumptions 8

part 2|86 pages

The Continuous and Controlled Assimilation of Change

chapter 4|15 pages

Three Experiments in Reorganization

chapter 5|11 pages

The Second Reorganization of Management

chapter 6|11 pages

The Transfer of Power

chapter 7|7 pages

The Board of Management Experiment 22

chapter 8|10 pages

The Board of Management Reconstituted

chapter 9|15 pages

Management Prepares for Further Expansion

chapter 10|11 pages

The Results of Eight Years of Reorganization

part 3|63 pages

The Initiation and Implementation of Change

chapter 11|5 pages

Prelude to Change

chapter 12|8 pages

Strategic Organization

chapter 13|7 pages

Sarabhai Chemicals

chapter 16|5 pages

Sarabhai Industries

chapter 17|9 pages

Preparation for Implementation

chapter 18|9 pages

Implementation

chapter 19|5 pages

The Differentiation is Pushed Through

part 4|101 pages

The Living Organization

chapter 20|6 pages

A System Theory of Organization

chapter 21|10 pages

The Primary Task

chapter 22|8 pages

Fitting the Organization to the Task

chapter 23|11 pages

Demands on Enterprise Leadership

chapter 24|16 pages

Managing Systems

chapter 25|14 pages

Some Problems of Delegation 53

chapter 26|8 pages

Organizational Flexibility

chapter 27|10 pages

Human Needs and Enterprise Objectives

chapter 28|12 pages

The Management of Change

chapter 29|4 pages

Conclusion