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Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Organization Development and Action Research | 11 |
The relationship between word and deed in organization development | 11 | |
The organizational form of language: discourses | 15 | |
Action research: organization development through the reorganization of discourses | 18 | |
A sketch of a strategy for action research (in three phases) | 22 | |
Ch. 2 | The Foundation Phase: Dialogue Conferences | 25 |
Linking up with the company's discourse | 25 | |
Launching the development organization concept | 28 | |
Dialogue with the executive management | 31 | |
The decision to hold a dialogue conference | 35 | |
The dialogue conference for the company | 37 | |
The need for an internal public sphere at the company | 39 | |
Old problems in new patterns: effects of the internal public sphere | 40 | |
Break (1): from present problems to tomorrow's organizational form | 43 | |
Alternating perspectives: personal experience and organizational understanding | 46 | |
Break (2): from the subject matter of the dialogues to dialogues as a work form | 49 | |
The simulation of the development organization | 52 | |
The decision to establish a development organization | 54 | |
Ch. 3 | The Project Development Phase: Development Organization at Work | 59 |
The development organization as an internal public sphere | 59 | |
Interpretation of experiences with the development organization | 64 | |
Modifying the development organization | 68 | |
Discussion about cooperation problems | 69 | |
The interconnection between discussion and cooperation procedures | 71 | |
The dialogue conference for supervisors and elected department representatives | 76 | |
Cooperation or conflict? Linguistic and real dilemmas | 77 | |
Interlude: the question of delegation | 80 | |
Discussion of the development organization: simulation of processes, not results | 80 | |
Opinions on the differentiation of the development organization | 84 | |
The yardstick for evaluating the development organization | 86 | |
Separate discussions with the company management and the trade union leadership | 87 | |
Strategy for transferring process competence to the company | 93 | |
The supervisor's conference under the direction of the company | 99 | |
Discussions in the company development committee | 103 | |
The interpretation of the trial arrangements | 104 | |
At the limit of discussions: a practical test | 106 | |
Ch. 4 | The Institutionalization Phase | 109 |
The paradox of institutionalization | 109 | |
Ch. 5 | Coda: Theory and Practice in Action Research | 113 |
What, if anything, is new? | 113 | |
New theory and practice | 116 | |
A new interpretation | 118 | |
Critical language theory in practice | 123 | |
An organization's internal public sphere: its nature and its supplementation | 131 | |
References | 147 |
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