Social development : A new role for the organizational science

This plundering volume integrates various concepts and models concerning ways in which the organizational and behavioral sciences (OBS) can effectively contribute to, and quicken the pace of, socio-economic development in developing countries. The recurrent theme underlying all the papers is western the need for a paradigm shift in OBS, from an excessive concern with academic finds and organizational issues to a greater concern with behaviour-related issues facing strategic Third World organize tions pursuing developmental missions

The book is divided into seven parts. The papers in the first part outline the need for a paradigm shift in OBS. Part II discusses. how OBS can contribute to socio-economic development by helping Third World strategic organizations to operate more effec Uvely. The third part examines various social and cultural issues from a macro perspective so as to make OBS in developing countries more socially relevant. The papers in the next part offer suggestions on how to design organizations to assist poverty alleviation
Part V expounds on the effective management of technologies acquired or developed by Third World organizations while Part VI describes how the process of formulating and implementing public policies can be made more effective by harnessing OBS. The papers in the last section present views on how organizational change technology can be utilized for rapid social and economic development.
Though the contributors to this volume focus on developing countries, this book should be of great interest to OBS scholars all over the world. Developmental professionals and policy-makers and those interested in rural development, public systems, NGOs, management, and applied behavioral sciences will find this volume refreshing.