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Eric Miller, Social Scientist and Organisational Consultant: His Life and Work

Editor : Mannie Sher, Editor : David Lawlor

Table of Contents

Editors & Contributing Authors
Foreword
Olya Khaleelee
Introduction
Homage
Eric J Miller: His Life & Work

Part 1 Consultancy
An Overview of Eric Miller's Work
The Consultant Role and the Development of Theory
The Roles of the Consultant - Triangles and Polygons
Facing Up to your Own Problems, 1974

Part 2 Working Note
Eric Miller's Ideas on the Working Note
The Grail

Part 3 Socio-technical Systems
Key Aspects of Eric Miller's work on Socio-technical Systems
Designing and Building a New Organisation: Some Lessons of a Greenfield Situation
The Influence of Advanced Technology on the Structure of Management Organisation
Social Factors in Setting up a New Works
The Human Element
The Work of the Tavistock Institute on the Design of Socio-technical Systems

Part 4 Group Relations
Introduction
Eric Miller: The Leicester Model

Part 5 Examples of Organisational Work
Introduction to Organisation Development & Consultancy
Organisational Development in the UK and USA: OD & Industrial Democracy
Varieties of Work
Church of England
Diocese of Chelmsford: Working Note
Hospital cum Medical School Complex
Calico Mills: The Drawing of Organisational Boundaries

Part 6 The Cotswold Community
Introduction: Working with the Cotswold Community
The Cotswold Community: Management Implications of the Therapeutic Task
The X Factor: The Cotswold Community, A Working Note
Thoughts on Staff Dynamics & Group Work: a Working Note
Strengthening the Organisation: Working Note
A Letter to John Whitwell, 1997
Towards an Organisational Model for the Residential Treatment of Adolescents
A Letter to John Whitwell, 1998

Part 7 Rural Development
Introduction
Goverment and Water Working Note
Mexico City Water Supply
Organisational Model & Challenges in Water Supply & Drainage Systems in Mexico City
Summarising the Planning Community
The Creation of a Planning Community in a Federal Public Sector
Compania Minera de Cananea: Working Note
Communal Schemes and Farmer Participation
The World Bank Sector Operations Review: Philippines Agriculture Sector

Part 8 Theory and Lecture Notes
Groups
Social Systems as a Defence: A Narrative Overview
Task Organisation 1
Individual and the Group with reference to Bion's theory of Group Behaviour
The Leicester Model
A Note on the Proto-mental System and Groupishness: Bion's Basic Assumptions re-visited
The Psycho-Political Dimension in Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations
Lecture to the Training Group, Leicester Conference, April 1981

Organisations
Introduction
Boundaries of Responsibility, Authority & Criteria of Performance
Organisational Change and Implications for the Managerial Role
Bringing Different Cultures Together: Barriers and Overcoming Them
Identity and the Decay of Institutions
The Healthy Organisation for the 1990s
The Healthy Organisation, Australia, 1993
The Female Entrepreneur
Them and Us: The Functions of Splitting in Organisational Life

Part 9 Tributes & Memories
Fiddy Abraham
Eliat Aram
David Armstrong
John Bazalgette
Sue Burton
Francesca Cardona
Tim Dartington
Shmuel Erlich and Mira Erlich-Ginor
Jim Krantz
Jean Neumann
Anton Obholzer
Mark Stein
John Whitwell
Vega Zagier Roberts

Part 10
Conclusion


References
Index