Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management: Using AI to Facilitate Organizational Development

Organizations as machines, workers as cogs and management as a control process -- An alternative approach : organizations as living human systems -- The development of conversational approaches to organizational change -- Appreciative Inquiry : how do you do it? -- The power of the question -- The p...

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Main Author: Lewis, Sarah
Other Authors: Passmore, Jonathan, Cantore, Stefan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Kogan Page India Pvt. Ltd. 2008
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Summary:Organizations as machines, workers as cogs and management as a control process -- An alternative approach : organizations as living human systems -- The development of conversational approaches to organizational change -- Appreciative Inquiry : how do you do it? -- The power of the question -- The power of conversation -- Extending practice : working with story in organizations -- Developing your conversational practice -- Becoming an appreciative conversational practitioner -- How to introduce Appreciative Inquiry and related approaches to your organization -- Case study : Using Appreciative Inquiry at BP Castrol Marine / David Gilmour and Anne Radford -- Case study : Revitalizing corporate values in Nokia / Caryn Vanstone and Bruno Dalbiez -- Case study : World Café / Arian Ward, Paul E. Borawski and Juanita Brown -- Case study : Applying Appreciative Inquiry to deliver strategic change : Orbseal Technology Center / Jacqueline M. Stavros and Joe R. Sprangel, Jr.
Physical Description:xvi, 247 p.
ISBN:9780749453824
0749453826