ACTION TRAINING AND RESEARCH: SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW.

This article presents a description of action research and training as well as examples of the flexibility and power of the approach to change in organization development in the U.S. The approach used in this article by no means exhausts AT and R methods and strategies. The action research that emerges today is often melding of all the four methods of action research in 1984. The National Training and Development Service has been investing its resources heavily in AT and R as a change strategy.