The Impossibility of Using Random Strategies to Study the Organization Development Process

The organization development (OD) process seeks collaborative, diagnosis-based organizational change. This article discusses how the use of random strategies of a traditional experimental design to study the OD process fundamentally changes that process to something other than OD. Following a litera...

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Published in:The Journal of applied behavioral science 1987-01, Vol.23 (2), p.255-262
Main Authors: Bullock, R. J., Svyantek, Daniel J.
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Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
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