Diagnosing Organizations: Methods, Models, and Processes

An internationally known scholar of organizations and health systems, Harrison (sociology, Bar-Ilan U., Ramat-Gan, Israel) presents a text showing how consultants and applied researchers can quickly and flexibly help decision makers diagnose and handle problems and challenges. The thoroughly updated third edition reflects developments, diagnostic practices, and trends in change management that have occurred in the decade since publication of the second edition. In addition to revamping of some of the key terminology, the third edition includes expanded treatment of effectiveness criteria, revised discussion of the model for diagnosing individual and group behavior, new discussion of Hackman's Action Model for Group Task Performance, and new material on combining opposing principles of organizational design. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR