4.3 The researcher working in the radical humanist or structuralist paradigms may argue that it is predictable that managers would say that the purpose of organisational investigation is to develop recommendations for action to solve problems without radical change because radical change may involve changing managers! Radicalism implies-root-andbranch investigation and possible change and most of us prefer ‘fine-tuning’ within the framework of what exists already, particularly if change threatens our vested interests.