Creator of the idea of Utopia: the prefect society. More suggests in the journey of Raphael Hythlodaeus it happens by degrees, and fails when it over promises rather than delivers.

Father of the English Novel. His heroes all are creative solution managers, think Robinson Crusoe, who respect their helpers. Also wrote guidelines for treatment of staff

Work methods: commercialized the enamel industry; which was thought to be purely cottage industry work.

New Lanark Mills
Personnel practices. Aged 19 managed 500 people - best mill in GB - immense worker for social equality for all workers

Administration theory, Utilitarianism – that the majority is more important that the individual, equality at work

Chairman Pennsylvania Railroad – organizer extraordinaire – delegation decentralization standardization motivation

Bourneville
Ideal factory and housing – Basics of life – work balance

Bureaucracy, spanning, planning, job specialization

Communication guru – emphasized that responsibility creates much better workers - advocated leaderless groups

Office work guru
Objectives, functions, organizations charts, job descriptions

Founder of modern social psychology with Action research Originator of t-groups, the phrase feedback for helping employees

Efficiency expert
Competence, clear ideas, clear chain, good discipline, just treatment standardizations

Hawthorne Experiments
Light bulb and workers satisfaction: found the letting workers make their own decisions increased results

X and Y theory
X companies reward and punish their workers to motivate them. Y companies respect and include and consult

Sociologist, participatory action research liberal calling for a closing of the gap between rich and poor Cornell University

British
Discontinuity of change Independent federal organizations called companies Greek God model of companies

British
Action Learning:
L = P + Q
L = Learning,
P = Programmed knowledge
Q= Insightful Questioning

Psychologist
4 types of managers
1 Exploitative- authorative
2 Benevolent-authorative
3 Consultative
4 Participative group

Organization Development Guru
Action tools and organizational theory

Quality through people- it is possible to instill quality in people Humanity source of motivation:
*Give clear aims and clarify aims
*Strong responsibility
*Give time for creation of ideas
*Nurture ideas so people own them Creativity - thinking
Physical Activity - sweat
Sociality – joy of sharing pain and joy with colleagues

Humanism in OD – visionist, foresaw flatter organizations, fostering leadership etc; and the process of change. Develop tools to make meetings effective!

Died Sept 13 1997
Along with Chris AGYRIS leading thinker in OD field. Generative Metaphor – using metaphor / models to understand random and real change etc. No stable states – everything is in a continuous state of change.

change and empowerment – advocate of innovation, creativity and encouraging the humanistic spirit in organizations

Major thinker in Sociology of Organizations. Based in France.
Systems of Action: how people act when facing conflict: power structures, actors, resolution, communication

The 5th fieldwork handbook – the learning organization The MAJOR competitive advantage beyond innovation is people development

Organizational Futurist: Many organizations squander their brains on manoeuvring – Watch out for “collective stupidity” vs. knowledge cultures. Tools include Mindex

Systems thinking
Planning guru
Operational resources

Team performance specialist and governance transformation, retention, productivity

Teams, team players, and creating team based work. The Parker Team Style Survey is very popular with I/O psychologists. It identifies 4 types:
Contributor
Collaborator
Communicator
Challenger

Living Systems.
Advocates work as a humane idea Founder of the Berkana Institute

Community of practice and social learning theorist – creating knowledge based learning organizations

Reframing: arguing for new concepts that help organizations be more organized and freer at the same time