The Anarchist Movement and the T Group: Some Possible Lessons for Organizational Development

Abstract

Spanish anarchism was an extremely cohesive but ineffective movement espousing many of the ideals similar to those advanced in laboratory training. This paper argues that there may be some parallels between the history of Spanish anarchism and the contributions of T-Group training to organization development, if insufficient attention is paid to the organizational learning that must take place along with the personal and interpersonal learning of the T-Group experience. Eight approaches are described for increasing organizational learning in the context of laboratory training and follow-up.