O.R. in the community

Jones, Sue and Eden, Colin (1981) O.R. in the community. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 32 (5). pp. 335-345. ISSN 0160-5682 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2581551)

Abstract

For the past eighteen months the authors have been involved in work with a community group attempting to help the unemployed youth of their small city. This paper discusses some of the key differences and similarities they found between this work in the community and more traditional organizations, particularly in terms of client-consultant expectations and their "organizational" context. The authors were made aware of the inadequacy of traditional O.R. techniques for helping their clients and the paper also describes some of the unconventional methods they were forced to turn to in order to offer realistic and relevant help with this complex "mess" of multiple problems, nested feedback loops and subjective, political beliefs not amenable to quantification.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	43625
  Dates:	Date Event May 1981 Published
  Keywords:	OR, operational research, unemployed youth, community group, work in the community, traditional organizations, client-consultant expectations, multiple problems, inadequacy, O.R. techniques, Management. Industrial Management, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Marketing
  Subjects:	Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
  Department:	Strathclyde Business School > Strategy and Organisation
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	26 Apr 2013 10:42
  Last modified:	21 May 2023 03:28
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/43625