Eric Miller, Social Scientist and Organisational Consultant

Editors & Contributing Authors

Foreword

Olya Khaleelee

Introduction

Homage

Eric J Miller: His Life & Work

Part I Consultancy

Organizational Development and Industrial Democracy: An Overview of Eric Miller's Work

The Consultant Role and the Development of Theory

The Roles of the Consultant: Triangles and Polygons

Facing Up to your Own Problems, 1974

Part 2 Working Note

Eric Miller's Ideas on the Working Note

The Grail Working Note No. 3

Part 3 Socio-technical Systems

Key Aspects of Eric Miller's work on Socio-technical Systems: Foundations of Socio‑Technical Systems Theory

Designing and Building a New Organisation: Some Lessons of a Green-field Situation

The Influence of Advanced Technology on the Structure of Management Organisation

Social Factors in Setting up a New Works

The Human Element

The Work of the Tavistock Institute on the Design of Socio-technical Systems: Summary of Findings

Part 4 Group Relations

Introduction

The Leicester Model: Conceptual Framework

Part 5 Examples of Organisational Work

Introduction to Organisation Development & Consultancy

Organisational Development in the UK and USA: OD & Industrial Democracy

Eric Miller’s Work with the Church of England, 1973: Introduction

CASR 950 the Diocese of Chelmsford: A Preliminary Study of the Organization of Education and Training in the Context of the Task of Ministry: A Second Working Note

The Hospital‑Cum‑Medical School Complex: A Preliminary Assessment for an Analysis for an Action Research Project of a London Teaching Hospital‑Cum‑Medical School

The Calico Mills: The Drawing of Organizational Boundaries within a Department, Womshed Organization

Part 6 The Cotswold Community

Working with the Cotswold Community: Introduction

The Cotswold Community: Management Implications of the Therapeutic Task

The X Factor – The Cotswold Community: A Working Note

The Cotswold Community Thoughts on Staff Dynamics & Group Work: a Working Note

The Cotswold Community Strengthening the Organisation: Working Note, May 1994

A Letter to John Whitwell, 1997

Towards an Organisational Model for the Residential Treatment of Adolescents

Letter to John Whitwell, Principal, The Cotswold Community,1998

Part 7 Rural Development

Rural Development Introduction

Tavistock Institute of Human Relations Plan Nacional Hidraulico Working Note No. 1 Government and Water

Introduction to the Consulting Project Undertaken in Mexico City

Organisational Model & Challenges in Water Supply & Drainage Systems in Mexico City – Consulting Project (1978)

Summarising the Planning Community: Introduction

The Creation of a Planning Community in a Federal Public Sector: A report by Eric Miller for the
Secretary of the President of Mexico, 1971

Compania Minera de Cananea March 1986 : A Working Note

Communal Schemes and Farmer Participation

The World Bank Sector Operations Review: Philippines Agriculture Sector (Draft)

Part 8 Theory and Lecture Notes

Part 8A Groups

Social Systems as a Defence: A Narrative Overview

Task Organisation 1

The Individual and the Group with reference to Bion's theory of Group Behaviour Vaughn College
Conference, September 1967; September 1968

The Leicester Model: Introduction: Group Relations

A Commentary on Miller’s Paper on the Protomental System and ‘Groupishness’: Bion’s Basic

The Psycho-Political Dimension in Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations: Lecture to the Training Group, Leicester Conference, April 1981

Part 8B Organisations

Introduction: Organizational Development, Design, and Change

Boundaries of Responsibility, Authority & Criteria of Performance

Organisational Change and Implications for the Managerial Role

Bringing Different Cultures Together: Barriers and Overcoming Them: Lecture Given to the Voluntary Centre Conference, July 11th, 1992

Chapter for TMSI Volume on Identity, Edited by Chris Vincent: Identity and the Decay of Institutions

The Healthy Organisation for the 1990s

The Healthy Organisation, Australia, 1993

The Female Entrepreneur: Key Themes in Eric Miller’s Work on Female Entrepreneurs

Them and Us: The Functions of Splitting in Organisational Life

Part 9 Tributes & Memories

David Lawlor and Mannie Sher

Fiddy Abraham

Eliat Aram

David Armstrong (1932–2026)

John Bazalgette

Sue Burton

Francesca Cardona

Tim Dartington, August 2023

Shmuel Erlich and Mira Erlich-Ginor

Jim Krantz

Jean Neumann

Anton Obholzer

Mark Stein

John Whitwell

Vega Zagier Roberts

Part 10 Conclusion

68 Conclusion

References

Index