Who's in charge? lessons in discerning the source of authority for a rural local government's decision to retain od help
- 16(4) Apr 1993 p.491-510
In the face of increasing demand in this era of "fend for yourself federalism", greater number of university-based organisation development consultants will likely be working closely with city and county, governments in the coming years. Duestins of authority to engage the consultant and to implement anyh new policies which result from the OD intervention process are not always easy to answer. This paper describes an illustrative case study in which failure to answer these questions resulted in the premature termination of an ongoing intervention. Lessons learned from this "failure and steps which might be taken to avoid similar outcomes in comparable circumstances are dicussed. - Reproduced.
Public Personnel Personnel, Public Local Government