Quality in United States Organizations Conference to be held at the University of California, Berkeley, May 16-17, 1997

1996年9月，在社会和行为科学委员会、美国国家科学院和国家科学基金会的赞助下，在华盛顿特区举行了为期两天的研讨会，汇集了研究人员和学者，讨论正在进行的和主要的研究，以提高美国组织的质量。几位研究人员报告了正在进行的工作，与会的学者们考虑了如何通过与该组织的研究界更密切的联系更好地提供信息和改进高质量的研究。这次研讨会对与会者和观察员的研究具有启发性和有益的意义。这个项目是为了一个后续的研讨会，重新召集第一次研讨会的许多参与者，以及一些额外的学者。本次研讨会的总体目标是改进第一次研讨会上发表的论文，着眼于创建一个编辑卷，并继续加强TQO主题与组织理论、社会学和心理学等学科的核心主题之间的概念联系。

In September 1996, under the auspices of the Commission on Social and Behavioral Sciences, NAS, and the National Science Foundation, a two-day workshop was held in Washington, DC, to bring together researchers and scholars to discuss on-going and key research on current efforts to enhance quality in US organizations. Several researchers reported on work-in-progress, and the assembled scholars considered ways in which quality research could both better inform and be improved by closer linkages to the organizations research community. This workshop was stimulating and useful to the research of the participants and observers. This project is for a follow-on workshop to reassemble many of the participants from the first workshop, as well as some additional scholars. The overall aim of this workshop will be to improve the papers initiated at the first workshop with an eye toward creating an edited volume, as well as to continue to strengthen the conceptual links between TQO topics and core topics from disciplines such as organization theory, sociology, and psychology.