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The Third Edition of the bestselling Diagnosing Organizations shows how consultants and applied researchers can help decision makers quickly and flexibly diagnose problems and challenges and decide how to deal with them. This thoroughly revised... Read Full Overview

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Many managers and organizational leaders face shrinking budgets, growing competition, and changing organizational alliances and missions A bewildering array of new technologies... Read Full Overview

"The book is a very sound piece of work defining a set of soft tools that can be applied to organizational situations. It is centered on the concept of the open systems and where this is deficient, it brings in a political model. This reader enjoyed the book and looks forward... Read Full Overview

"The book is a very sound piece of work defining a set of soft tools that can be applied to organizational situations. It is centered on the concept of the open systems and where this is deficient, it brings in a political model. This reader enjoyed the book and looks forward... Read Full Overview

Harrison shows how advanced undergraduate/graduate students and practitioners how to assess organizational effectiveness and find ways to improve states like productivity, quality of working life and innovativeness. He discusses research-based models for framing issues and specifies... Read Full Overview

Harrison shows how advanced undergraduate/graduate students and practitioners how to assess organizational effectiveness and find ways to improve states like productivity, quality of working life and innovativeness. He discusses research-based models for framing issues and specifies... Read Full Overview