Dialogic organization development : the theory and practice of transformational change / Gervase R. Bushe and Robert J. Marshak, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bushe, Gervase R., editor.

Marshak, Robert J., 1946- editor.

Series:

BK business book.

BK business book

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Organizational learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 456 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Theory and practice of transformational change

Place of Publication:

Oakland, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015.

Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2015]

Summary:

Dialogic Organization Development is a compelling alternative to the classical action research approach to planned change. Organizations are seen as fluid, socially constructed realities that are continuously created through conversations and images change happens when those conversations and images change. Leaders and consultants can help foster, support, or accelerate the emergence of transformational possibilities by encouraging disruptions to taken-for-granted ways of thinking and acting and the use of generative images to stimulate new organizational conversations and narratives. Dialogic OD is a different mindset, but it s also the previously unrecognized underpinning of such diverse change methods as Appreciative Inquiry, the Art of Convening, Future Search, and many more.

Contents:

Foreword: Dialogic Organization Development: Past, Present, and Future

Part I: Introduction and Overview

1. Introduction to the Dialogic Organization Development Mindset

2. Introduction to the Practice of Dialogic OD

Part II: Theoretical Bases of Dialogic Organization Development

3. Social Constructionist Challenge to Representational Knowledge: Implications for Understanding Organization Change

4. Discourse and Dialogic Organization Development

5. Generative Image: Sourcing Novelty

6. Complexity, Self-Organization, and Emergence

7. Understanding Organizations as Complex Responsive Processes of Relating

8. Consulting as Collaborative Co-Inquiry

Part III: Practices of Dialogic Organization Development

9. Enabling Change: The Skills of Dialogic OD

10. Entering, Readiness, and Contracting for Dialogic Organization Development

11. Transformative Learning during Dialogic OD

12. Framing Inquiry: The Art of Engaging Great Questions

13. Hosting and Holding Containers

14. From Them to Us: Working with Multiple Constituents in Dialogic OD

15. Amplifying Change: A Three-Phase Approach to Model, Nurture, and Embed Ideas for Change

16. Coaching from a Dialogic OD Paradigm

17. Dialogic Process Consultation: Working Live

Commentary on Dialogic Process Consultation

Part IV: Conclusion: The Path Ahead

Acknowledgments

Index

List of Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781626564053 (ebook)

9781626564046 (hbk.)

OCLC:

909895147