Researching and Finding
Organisational Information

The Internet is like having your own library in the front room - there are some sites I have found that are packed full of interesting, challenging and intriguing information. Use the right search methods and you can find almost anything. Some of its naff but much is valuable. Visit some of these sites. I will keep adding to them, let me know if you know of any that are as good as these. Also if any have broken links or have been moved.
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Recently added from online blog (jan 2003)

MeansBusiness - ideas from today's top business experts on areas such as Management,Marketing,Finance,Business,E-commerce,Leadership,Strategic Planning,Knowledge Management,Reengineering,Internet Marketing. You may find some useful summaries of key ideas

Seeing Systems, Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life summary of book by Barry Oshry,includes seeing systems,organizational life,patterns relationship,system history,three patterns,system life,viewed perspective

LiNE Zine Learning in the New Economy e-Magazine (LiNE Zine) an online publication introducing thinking on learning, performance, knowledge, and human capital in the New Economy.

Content village European based E-learning Resource Centre - portals, networks, news, articles, reports, EU reports

a2zpsychology site I came across this looking for a lost link on Lewin's field theory. I haven't explored it yet but it seems to have material on all aspects of psychology including models and theorists.

BIG UMBRELLA SITES
with lots of quality material and good links
Theory.Org
Strictly speaking not organisational stuff however the material is related and some of the ideas are one's I have found useful as well as food for thought. Its a site devoted to aspects of sociology / communication / identity theories by a lecturer at University of Leeds (UK). It includes extensive information on Judith Butler, Gramsci, Foucault, Adorno, Identity, Web Culture, Queer theory and Media. There are also booklists with comments for each section. Well designed and easy on the eye.
SocioSite
is another site which is slightly off our topic but has excellent overlapping information from a sociological perspective on ideas and people which you may find helpful. Topics include behaviour, groups, conflict, decision theory, game theory, management, Taylorism, social psychology and many, many more. Worth visiting.
Resource Center for Cybercutural studies is a cultural theory and new media literacy Web site - critical theory, cultural theory, new media literacy, visual literacy and information on many of the important contributors and their theories. Useful overviews and material. Not all related to the key themes on this site but a good source and you may find that some of the areas covered touch on an aspect of your work.For an excellent range of information on wide range of management and organisational topics.
The Business Open Learning Archive is one of the really useful sites on the Net. Everything you might need to know or check out from power, business ethics, managerial roles, self managed learning, operations, marketing, systems etc. Clearly laid out, good design. Is updated
Non Profit Managers Free Management Library
A comprehensive site, aimed mostly at non profit, NGO's - but packed full of basic information on organisations and managing for those in the non profit / voluntary sector
The Theory Into Practice (TIP) database contains descriptions of 50 theories relevant to human learning and instruction. Each description includes the following sections: overview, scope/application, example, principles, and references. Relationships between theories are identified by highlighted text within articles. These relationships can be connections between specific theories or to concepts that underlay a number of theories. The theories are also indexed according to content domain and type of learning. Theories were selected for inclusion in the database based upon their relevance to some aspect of human learning and instruction.

Age of Heretics & History of Management / Organisational Theory
For a fascinating history of all the people-process stuff in organisations read this book by Art Kleiner - if process and dynamics are where you come from, the human relations school of thinking then read about how it all got started and who influenced what organisation, the different threads and movements coming from the HR school, includes some fascinating information on National Training Labs and T groups, brings back memories of the time when many of us spent our lives wrapped in group processes. There is a web site related to the information which is also linked to The Fifth Discipline FieldbookManagement and organisational history provides useful perspectives and ideas, in the end the concepts and issues do seem to cycle around. Other sites include:
LINK Accel-Team site - Explanations of a number of aspects of organisational and management theories, from Taylor to Argyris, Maslow to McClelland.
LINK Management theory - discussion includes historical perspective across the ages
LINK History of Management Thought
LINK Classic approaches to management- includes good critique of classical theories, lecture notes for a course at Canberra university, Australia
LINK Scientific management teachers guide outline of F W Taylor's work and ideas
LINK An overview of four important areas of management theory: Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management, Elton Mayo's Hawthorne Works experiments and the human relations movement, Max Weber's idealized bureaucracy, and Henri Fayol's views on administration

COURSE MATERIAL LINKS

There are a growing number of universities and colleges where members of the faculty are placing their lecture notes and other material on the Net. These are useful summaries of many of the key models and theories and frequently have useful detailed bibliographies. Some are only brief notes but others provide more useful detail.
You may find that these links may not always work. Academic sites seem to reorganise themselves more often than others and I have found they don't retain the same page names.
Some examples I have found include:
An electronic textbook ("e-text") created for undergraduate and graduate courses in Personality Theories

Management, Organisational Issues
These are sites that contain lots of information, you may have to search through for what you want but the material can lead to other useful items International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations - has links to many papers and material from their conferences. Excellent source of ideas and some in depth examinationof important issues in organisational life. For example Psychoanalysis and the Executive Role or On the Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Organisational Social Science or Reflections from Practice: The Interface of Psychoanalysis and Organizational Role Consultation MCB University Press, Program on Social & Organizational Learning look particularly at the section Perspectives on Organizational Learning, not all the articles appear to be up yet but there is an interesting critique of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook.
INSEAD - one of the world's most eminent business schools. If you are unsure as to exactly where the data you require are located, or you wish to see all the data on a specific subject, then just click on the Global Query, and make use of the site search tool. The research part of the site holds information across most management areas e.g. case studies, working papers, books and articles by faculty, and business simulations. Working papers can be ordered online.
Harvard Business School the UK Institute of Management
Some organisational behaviour information sites include this OB one at Geocities and another organizational behaviour site and this at the Action Science Network Management General - Tom Brown's site about managing and leading. This website features Leadership E-books published online; short, provocative "ezzays" by prominent thinkers on what leaders should be thinking about -- NOW!; "Top 10 Resources" for leaders; and "Leader-Lines," observations from all over including concise interviews with major thinkers plus a SuperSite of leadership-linking URL's. update this site has had a lot of work done on it since I last looked and has many short 'ezzays' from a number of leading management / organisational thinkers including Charles Handy, Gareth Morgan, Peter Drucker, Tony Buzan, Margaret Wheatley and many more. It aims to 'collect, study, and circulate leadership thinking which promotes both better human beings and more productive organizations.'

Training and Facilitation

Training Magazine
Square Wheels (a goodie) Scott Simmerman's site is full of useful materials and ideas for facilitators and trainers as well as articles he has written. Look for Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly - ideas on managing change: his Squarewheels material: Lego exercises (another who uses lego! I've always found them an invaluable tool for team exercises): Mission statements: Dis-Un -Empowerment: and many more. Training Supersite
Maynard Leigh Associates
The newsgroup, misc.business.facilitators via the newsgroups (Google). Often interesting and serious debates, helpful hints if you ask, access threads by using GoogleNews
Mailing Lists
A tip, set to receive messages separately. I used to get the digest but too hard to filter out what I don't need.
Learning Organization List - an eclectic flow of ideas and information, has to be sifted
Training Development List
Imaginization List
Organizational Development Network (ODNet) Complexity list