Tom Cummings: A Passion for People and Learning

Paul S. Adler ()
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Paul S. Adler: University of Southern California

Chapter 22 in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, 2017, pp 351-360 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Tom Cummings is best known for his text Organization Development and Change, widely referred to as “the bible of OD.” This chapter traces the development of his thought leading up to that text and beyond. I discuss his long-standing engagement with socio-technical systems and organization design, his synthesis of those with traditional organization development, his work on transorganizational design and on the strategy process, and his emerging work on “care” in organization studies.

Keywords: Organization development; Organization design; Self-designing organization; Socio-technical systems; Transorganizational design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52878-6_103

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