Organisation Development (OD) seems to have become unfashionable in the UK in recent years, with “culture and excellence” and “strategic human resources management” approaches more popular. This is in part due to OD’s naivete over power and politics, its neglect of corporate‐level...

In many studies of the family there is an assumption that the family unit consists of the father as the principal (or even sole) wage earner and contributor to the family finance, with the mother having a subordinate role in earning; the children are usually seen, in this idealised account, as...

Many studies of work behaviour have been bound by the factory walls, despite repeated reminders that what happens outside the organisation can have a direct effect on behaviour inside it. Some years ago the Rapoports pointed out that the inter‐relationship between work and family life