Productive Workplaces: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century - Hardcover

Praise for Productive Workplaces

"Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice oforganization development (OD) since the early 1970's. This book isa wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events,schools of thought, and controversies that have punctuated thefield from its beginnings. It should be required reading for everyOrganization Behavior and Development scholar. Among its manyvirtues, the book is beautifully written." —Peter Vaill,senior scholar and emeritus professor of management, AntiochUniversity Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change; author, Learningas a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of PermanentWhite Water, and Spirited Leading and Learning

"During my 33-year career, I have been involved in publishingwell over 1,000 books. Productive Workplaces is certainly among thetop five most influential in terms of its impact on theorganizations in which I worked, as well as on my personalleadership, and management concepts, and practices." —StevenPiersanti, president and publisher, Berrett-Koehler Publishers,Inc.; formerly president, Jossey-Bass Publishers

"As a professor in graduate studies in leadership and businesspsychology, I see my role as passing on to a new generation thevalues and lessons learned from a 25-year career in organizationaleffectiveness. Marvin Weisbord is a master whose wisdom I encouragemy students to seek out." —Connie S. Fuller, Ph.D., associatechair and assistant professor, Business Psychology, The ChicagoSchool of Professional Psychology; coauthor, Bridging theBoomer-Xer Gap: Creating Authentic Teams for High Performance atWork

"If somebody asks me to name just one good book on management,or organizational development, or social psychology, I give themthe same answer: Productive Workplaces. It addresses the headytopic of meaning and dignity in work with writing that is asengaging as a well-written novel." —Gil Steil, Gil SteilAssociates, Boston, Massachusetts