Productive Workplaces : Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century -- Contents -- Updates from the Field -- Foreword : The Existential Question -- Preface:Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition -- Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces -- PART ONE Mythology and Managing -- ONE A Mythology of Organizational Change -- TWO How I Learned to Manage by Managing -- PART TWO Searching for Productive Workplaces -- THREE Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors -- FOUR Taylor Invents a New Profession -- FIVE Action Research: Lewin Revises Taylorism -- SIX Lewin's Legacy to Management -- SEVEN The Transition to Experiential Learning -- EIGHT McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development -- NINE Theories X and Y for a New Generation -- TEN Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace -- ELEVEN Learning to Work in a New Paradigm -- PART THRE E Learning from Experience -- TWELVE Putting Action Research to Work -- THIRTEEN Rethinking Diagnosis and Action -- Case 1. Food Services Turnover: Action Research and Human Resource Accounting -- Case 2. Chem Corp R&D: Managers Do Their Own Feedback -- Case 3. Packaging Plant: Operators Meet Expert Analysis -- Case 4. Solcorp: Expertise Can't Fix the Old Paradigm -- FOURTEEN Managing and Consulting in Permanent White Water -- FIFTEEN Involving Everyone to Improve the Whole -- Case 5. Medical School: Stakeholders Plan the Future -- Case 6. Printing Inc.: Getting the Report Out of the Drawer -- SIXTEEN Revising Theories of What Works -- SEVENTEEN Making Systems Thinking Experiential -- PART FOUR Integrating the Past into the Present -- EIGHTEEN 21st Century Managing and Consulting -- NINETEEN Changing Everything at Once -- TWENTY Teamwork in a Fast-Changing World -- TWENTY ONE Designing Work for Learning and Self-Control.

TWENTY TWO Future Search: The Whole System in the Room -- TWENTY THREE Cross-Cultural Future Searching -- PART FIVE Learning Then and Now -- TWENTY FOUR Ten Cases Decades Later: What's Sustainable About "Change"? -- TWENTY FIVE Changing the World One Meeting at a Time -- TWENTY SIX The Future Never Comes, It's Already Here -- References -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index.