Processes of organizational change in the human services are discussed from the perspective of front-line staff. The author argues that we can better appreciate responses to change by considering how staff strive to construct integrity in the light of challenges they construe to their values and their practices. Developmental and conceptual implications of the analysis are outlined in the context of change in human service organizations as they move towards an industrial or post-industrial era.
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