Includes index Golembiewski, R. T., & Eddy, W. B. (Eds.). (1978). Organization development in public administration. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Some examples of organization development: illustrating the reach and range of available designs -- Organization development applications in specific agencies: a growing inventory of public sector interventions -- SIGN: multi-organization development -- Team building-one approach to organizational development -- Laboratory training and encounter groups -- Action training and research: something old and something new -- MARTA: toward an effective, open giant -- Toward building new work relationships: an action design for a critical intervention -- Third-party consultation: principles and a case study of their violation -- One venue for expressing central OD values: some attitudinal and behavioral consequences of a flexi-time installation -- Crisis intervention in a municipal agency: a conceptual case history -- Role negotiation: a tough minded approach to team development -- The prospects for organizational development through multi-team building -- Career development for women: an affirmative action first -- Monitoring the process and evaluating the results of organization development -- Task force management in Dayton, Ohio -- Survey feedback and the military -- New perspectives toward more effective local elected councils and boards -- A structural approach to organizational change -- My errors in OD -- Job redesign: a contingency approach to implementation -- OD at the grass roots: first line management team-building in a public housing project -- An OD intervention to install participative management in bureaucratic organization

Organization development (OD) can be defined as a process of planned change. Used correctly by managers, it is an approach that enables an enterprise to adapt effectively to the demands of internal and external reality. Within the past few years, OD has emerged as a major topic among public administrationists. Its basic concern with change links the manager and the enterprise with a probabilistic world view and makes OD a most promising approach for dealing with the present and the future of public organizations. Public sector applications of organizations development technology illustrates the range of available OD designs and provides an inventory of specific public sector applications and their results. - From the Book