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Appreciative inquiry for change management using AI to facilitate organizational development /

Explains the theory and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), World Cafe, Open Space and other conversational approaches for facilitating organizational development (OD).

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Sarah, 1957-
Corporate Author: Gale Group.
Other Authors: Passmore, Jonathan., Cantore, Stefan.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London, England : Kogan Page, c2008.
Series:Gale virtual reference library
Subjects:
Organizational change > Management.
Appreciative inquiry.
Management > Employee participation.
Organizational effectiveness.
Online Access:Available for Universiti Teknologi MARA via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Case study: Revitalizing corporate values in Nokia
  • Case study: World Caf ̌
  • Case study: Applying Appreciative Inquiry to deliver strategic change: Orbseal Technology Center.

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