The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

4	Implementing Corporate Change: A Role For Organisation Development 1965–72

The heart of this book is the description and analysis of ICI's attempts to change its structure, technology, management–union relationships, and organisation culture over the period from the early 1960s until the early 1980s. In examining this 20 years of continuity and change in ICI, a central theme will be the exploration of the possibilities and limitations of specialist attempts to facilitate and implement organisational change. The specialists under examination are individuals, and on some occasions groups of internal and external consultants, using behavioural science and organisation development concepts and methods. Crucial to the analysis of the above ...