TY - JOUR
T1 - The Tavistock's 1945 invention of Organization Development
T2 - early British business and management applications of social psychiatry
AU - Burnes, Bernard
AU - Cooke, Bill
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - The management field 'Organization Development' (OD), is said to have been invented in the mid-1950s in the USA. Some contribution post-1958 by the UK Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), and to a minor extent, in its World War II 'group-relations' work is acknowledged. Otherwise, OD depicts the circle of its US 'founding father' Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) as its historic mainspring. A new 1945 primary source, the TIHR's originating funding proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation, proposes all the components of OD, outside mention of Lewin et al. Thus, what was to become OD was invented in the Britain of 1945, not the USA of the 1950s.
AB - The management field 'Organization Development' (OD), is said to have been invented in the mid-1950s in the USA. Some contribution post-1958 by the UK Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), and to a minor extent, in its World War II 'group-relations' work is acknowledged. Otherwise, OD depicts the circle of its US 'founding father' Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) as its historic mainspring. A new 1945 primary source, the TIHR's originating funding proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation, proposes all the components of OD, outside mention of Lewin et al. Thus, what was to become OD was invented in the Britain of 1945, not the USA of the 1950s.
KW - Kurt Lewin
KW - Organization Development (OD)
KW - Rockefeller Foundation
KW - Tavistock
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881564344&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00076791.2013.790368
DO - 10.1080/00076791.2013.790368
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84881564344
SN - 0007-6791
VL - 55
SP - 768
EP - 789
JO - Business History
JF - Business History
IS - 5
ER -