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Organization Development Impacts Interrupted

A Multiyear Time-Serial Study of Absence and other Time Uses

University of New Mexico

Michael L. Moore

Michigan State University

Joseph E. Champoux

University of New Mexico

Joseph J. Martocchio

University of Illinois

Time-serial statistics show the daily impact of organization development (OD) on five systemically interdependent employee time use variables across the first 2 years of an absence control intervention. Tume worked, time scheduled off, short-term excused absence, long-term excused absence, and short-term nonexcused absence all showed interdependent daily changes in annual time use as OD techniques were aggressively and widely introduced, later overtaken by events and severely restricted, and eventually replaced with a mechanistic policy-based absence control system. OD induced strong and constructive increases in work and decreases in excused forms of nonwork while it continued to operate, but those changes eroded quickly under competing pressures once investment in OD was curtailed. After the OD impetus toward self-control was replaced with a mechanistic management model, unexcused absence began to drop, but time use began shifting into excused nonwork activities. This trend eventually caused significant erosion of the gains in time worked.

Group & Organization Management, Vol. 19, No. 3, 363-394 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/1059601194193008


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