Richard Beckhard: The Formulator of Organizational Change

Ronald Fry ()
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Ronald Fry: Case Western Reserve University

Chapter 6 in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, 2017, pp 91-105 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Richard Beckhard is recognized as one of the founders of the field of organization development and as a pioneer in the study and teaching of a systemic approach to planned change in complex organizations. As an educator, Beckhard was an adjunct professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he teamed with Douglas McGregor, Warren Bennis, and Edgar Schein in the early development of MIT’s Department of Organization Studies. A practitioner at heart, he applied behavioral sciences to translate his international consulting experiences into many useful change management models and tools that still influence practice of change leadership today including the Formula for Change, Open Systems Planning, Responsibility Charting, Confrontation Meeting, and Task-Oriented Team Development. As an institution builder, he helped found the Organization Development Network, the International Organization Development Association, and the Family Firm Institute.

Keywords: Confrontation meeting; Decision charting; Formula for change; Open systems planning; Organization development; Planned change; Resistance to change; Readiness for change; Task-oriented team building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52878-6_1

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