Organization Development, 3rd Edition

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Power and politics in Organization Development

Organizations, just like human bodies, come in different shapes and forms. For example, we know of the following types: bureaucratic, hierarchical, rational, collegial/consensus, collaborative, learning, virtual, network, holacractic and wirearchical. Each type of organization has its distinctive way of running, eg in decision making, in its approach in problem solving, in how it organizes its people, in its propensity to form or not form coalitions or partnerships, in the way it does or does not collaborate, in the way it controls resources, in its operational procedures, in its way of working with its partners and suppliers, and in the way it treats its human resources. However, regardless ...