TY - JOUR
AU - Bowers, David G.
AB - Data collected by the Michigan Inter-Company Longitudinal Study from more than 14,000 respondents in 23 organizations are analyzed in terms of the organizational development treatments that intervened between pre and postmeasures. Four "experimental" treatments (Survey Feedback, Interpersonal Process Consultation, Task Process Consultation, and Laboratory Training) and two "control" treatments (Data Handback and No Treatment) are compared to determine their relative association with improved organizational functioning as measured by the Survey of Organizations questionnaire. The results indicate that Survey Feedback was associated with statistically significant improvement on a majority of measures, that Interpersonal Process Consultation was associated with improvement on a majority of measures, that Task Process Consultation was associated with little or no change, and that Laboratory Training and No Treatment were associated with declines. In addition, organizational climate emerges as a potentially extremely important conditioner of these results, with Survey Feedback appearing as the only treatment associated with substantial improvement in the variables of this domain.
TI - OD Techniques and Their Results in 23 Organizations: The Michigan ICL Study
JF - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science: A Publication of the NTL Institute
DO - 10.1177/002188637300900103
DA - 1973-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/od-techniques-and-their-results-in-23-organizations-the-michigan-icl-I6UCESNr1s
SP - 21
EP - 43
VL - 9
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -