Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change

Resource type
Authors/contributors
Title
Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change
Abstract
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.
Place
Oakland
Publisher
EDS Publications Ltd.
Date
30 July 2015
# of Pages
496
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-62656-404-6
Short Title
Dialogic Organization Development
Library Catalogue
Amazon
Citation
Bushe, G. R. (2015). Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change (R. J. Marshak, Ed.). EDS Publications Ltd.