Conflict Management and Organization Development

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Conflict Management and
Organization Development
WILLEM EG.MASTENBROEK ^
Holland Consulting Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands''^ '^
This expanded edition of Conflict Management and Organization Development, -with a new chapter building on the concepts contained in the original edition, is an . 'ti account of power, negotiations and 'political' networks in organizations. It , -integrates major organizational paradoxes—for instance the tension between ' ^ central-decentral, autonomy-interdependency, cooperation-competition—and ' forms a bridge between the theory of organizations and the practice of j professional consulting work. The practical handling of a wide range of specific ; . organizational problems—such as the allocation of scarce resources, personal ¦ frictions within management teams, tensions in the hierarchy, demotivation,':,^ni conflicts of power and interest, resistance to change, and role conflict—^will make it essential reading for practitioners, lecturers and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Conflict Management and
Organization Development
WILLEM EG.MASTENBROEK ^
Holland Consulting Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands''^ '^
This expanded edition of Conflict Management and Organization Development, -with a new chapter building on the concepts contained in the original edition, is an . 'ti account of power, negotiations and 'political' networks in organizations. It , -integrates major organizational paradoxes—for instance the tension between ' ^ central-decentral, autonomy-interdependency, cooperation-competition—and ' forms a bridge between the theory of organizations and the practice of j professional consulting work. The practical handling of a wide range of specific ; . organizational problems—such as the allocation of scarce resources, personal ¦ frictions within management teams, tensions in the hierarchy, demotivation,':,^ni conflicts of power and interest, resistance to change, and role conflict—^will make it essential reading for practitioners, lecturers and students in organizational , . development, behaviour and management.
About the author - ^ ' '
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Willem Mastenbroek is one of the founders of the Holland Consulting Group in Amsterdam. His activities concentrate on organizational innovation and the development of continuous improvement management. He is professor of organizational culture and communication at the Free University in Amsterdam. Dr Mastenbroek is the author of six books and more than one hundred journal v articles.
From a review of the original edition ^
' the reader will be struck by the logical, concise development of what is, /; essentially, a very comprehensive approach to conflict management within the organization. Few volumes of such slim size manage to pack within them so many and so varied a range of OD interventions. Conflict Management and Organization Development is a book to which the OD practitioner will return again and again for insight and inspiration and practical guidelines. I consider it an invaluable addition to the library of the committed practitioner.'
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