Behavioral Science—On Radical Organization Workshops

Late in 1976 about three dozen of us were participants in the “Second Annual Workshop of Radical Approaches to Organization Design”. Originating from within the TIMS College on Organization, this special interest group has evolved into a network of its own. At this point the only tie with existing professional societies is an economically dictated link. The large scale, scheduled, face-to-face workshops are defined in both time and place by the semiannual TIMS/ORSA convocations.

What such a resource-rich group does and/or produces could be of interest as a phenomenon per se regardless of the substantive content produced. That is to say, both their process and product may be of interest to the Interfaces readership. For my own part, there is today only one other group—The Circle of Human Systems Management—which is as stimulating.