Consulting Activities of University Faculty Members: Scope and Depth of Involvement
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The consulting activities of university faculty are increasing. Two reasons for the increase are offered: to augment salaries, particularly law in the social sciences, and to meet demand from organizations for help with organizational problems. A survey of professors indicated fifty-three per cent involved in consulting were from management departments - the rest from communications, psychology, and other specialties. Methods of involvement-training groups, team building, and others were itemized. Resources most helpful are indicated. Fees charged ranged from thirty-seven per cent charging less than $300 per day to twenty per cent charging over $600 per day.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1983
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How Organization Development Can Develop Organizational Theory
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Learning from applied organizational problems can contribute to organizational theory. Theory is applied to organizational problems but the reverse could add to the body of knowledge on organizations. Organizational development (OD) consultants who know the language and work in the applied world could be great contributors to theory. A theoretical framework is presented as a guideline for OD consultants or practitioners to contribute their findings and experience to the theoretical literature. Their contributions would further give balance by including healthy doses of reality in the development of theory.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1983
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An examination of the correlates of job involvement
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The relationships between job involvement and personal situational variables, job characteristics, and work outcomes were studied. Data were collected by surveying 387 workers in a non-union ore processing plant. The results indicated that situational characteristics and outcome variables were better predictors of job involvement than personal demographic variables. Job involvement had a moderately positive relationship with workers' satisfaction with security, wages, co-workers, managers, growth, and organizational commitment. Job involvement and the desire to leave had a negative relationship.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1991
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