Intentional change : a complexity perspective / guest editor: Richard E. Boyatzis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyatzis, Richard E.

Series:

Journal of Management Development ; 25, no. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Information resources management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this e-book, each of the articles describes results and/or concepts driving current research studies on sustainable, intentional change. Life is change and we adapt to survive or we change to strive, often towards higher social motives or building caring relationships. These changes can be called "intentional." Some are conscious and others are not (i.e., autonomic). But they are intentional, and as such are desired and purposeful. In accidental or imposed changes, we decide how will respond and in this sense, our response to the imposed or accidental change is also intentional. Hardly a d

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; An overview of intentional change from a complexity perspective; The ideal self as the driver of intentional change; Why the real self is fundamental to intentional change; Positive and negative emotional attractors and intentional change; Working on the positive emotional attractor through training in health care; The evolving group: towards a prescriptive theory of intentional group development; Intentional change theory at the organizational level: a case study; Social capital and intentional change

National level intentional change: a story of two countries Call for papers;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-70577-9

9786610705771

1-84663-079-7

OCLC:

77276718