Creating the "authentizotic" organization - Corporate transformation and its vicissitudes - A rejoinder

This article is a rejoinder to the critique by Robert Golembiewski of the a uthors' article "Transforming the Mind-Set of the Organization: A Clinical Perspective," in which the processes of individual and organizational chang e and the resemblance between them were highlighted. Golembiewski's major p oints of criticism suggested limitations to the authors' approach to organi zational transformation, possible negative ethical implications, and low es timates of success rates. He referred to quality of working life (QWL) and organizational development (OD) studies as more appropriate approaches. The authors respond by emphasizing the difference between small-scale change a s represented by QWL and OD and major organizational transformation efforts they have engaged in, pointing out the dimension added by the clinical ori entation to conventional approaches to organizational change as one that ma y be more appropriate for the shift in organizational paradigms. The author s clarify the definition of healthy organizations and introduce the concept of the "authentizotic" organization.