Barriers to transformation in a higher education organization: Observations and implications' for OD professionals

From: Public Administration Quarterly | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

The field of organization development has made significant contributions to the health of organizations. In the 1965 text, Organizational Psychology, Edgar Schein introduced an "adaptive coping-cycle" as a systems model of organizational health. His criteria of organizational health were 1) Ability to sense environmental change; 2) Ability to get information to the right place; 3) Ability to digest and utilize information; 4) Ability to adjust and transform self without self-- destruction; and 5) Ability to get feedback on consequences of transformations. In Schein's (1997) ...

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