Articles by Nitish R De

in Developing Countries A Balance-sheet Nitish R De This paper off era a critique of worker participation practices in vogue in most developing countries. It is not suggested that sponsored schemes inevitably end up in failure and that voluntary schemes always succeed. The authors approach is leased instead on learning from the four cases reported in the initial part of the paper.

Exercise Nitish R De One objective of the approach adopted in this paper is to develop a process, simple enough, to diagnose an organisation system with some leads to initiate action-oriented change projects. Another objective is to view human resources as an organic entity of individual and collective energy. A human being as a worker can he viewed as an energy system rathet than as a role-rooted instrumentally- related work input. Such an approach is developm n'-oriented in the context of the complex criss-cross relations which bind people-at-work. Their subjective orientations can provide insights for objective analysis.

An Interim Balance-Sheet This paper has a limited focus. Its conceptual content will be as limited as its descriptive coverage. After providing a bird's eye-view of the concept of Organisational Development (OD) the paper will deal with (a) The progress of the OD approach in India, spearheaded by HM, Calcutta; (b) Some major problems encountered in Indian Organisations which are steadily responding to the OD intervention:

The current racial conflicts in United States involving such issues as housing and education are based as much on issues of poverty and social class as on racism. The gloomy facts of Negro life and living are not relieved by some improvement in his economic conditions.

This article attempts a study of the extent and character of gheraos in West Bengal, their impact on industrial relations and the basic issues at the root of this new expression of industrial conflict.