Appreciative Inquiry: An Emerging Direction for Organization Development,9781588741219

Appreciative Inquiry: An Emerging Direction for Organization Development

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ISBN13: 9781588741219
ISBN10: 1588741214
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Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Stipes Pub Llc
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Organization Development and Appreciative Inquiry: An Introduction to an Award-Winning Approach to OD i
PART I Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Positive Theory of Change 1(142)
A Positive Revolution in Change: Appreciative Inquiry
9(22)
David L. Cooperrider
Diana Whitney
Positive Image, Positive Action: The Affirmative Basis of Organizing
31(46)
David L. Cooperrider
Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life
77(24)
David L. Cooperrider
Suresh Srivastva
International and Intellectual Roots of Appreciative Inquiry
101(16)
Kenneth L. Murrell
Five Theories of Change Embedded in AI
117(12)
Gervase Bushe
What Matters Most in Appreciative Inquiry: Review and Thematic Assessment
129(14)
Therese F. Yaeger
Peter F. Sorensen, Jr.
PART II Case Stories, Resources for AI Practice and Empirical Testing 143(324)
Generative Metaphor Intervention: A New Approach for Working with Systems Divided by Conflict and Caught in Defensive Perception
147(28)
Frank J. Barrett
David L. Cooperrider
Advances in AI as an Organization Development Intervention
175(10)
Gervase Bushe
The ``Child'' as Agent of Inquiry
185(8)
David L. Cooperrider
Resources for Getting AI Started: An Example of OD Proposal
193(12)
David L. Cooperrider
An Appreciative Inquiry into the Factors of Culture Continuity During Leadership Transition: A Case of LeadShare, Canada
205(12)
Mary Ann Rainey
Survey Guided AI: A Case Study
217(10)
Rita F. Williams
The Liberation of Power: Exploring How Appreciative Inquiry ``Powers Up the People''
227(26)
Diana Whitney
Amanda Trosten-Bloom
Initiating Culture Change in Higher Education Through IA
253(10)
Robert L. Head
Michele M. Young
Saving Tomorrow's Workforce
263(6)
Christopher Anne Easley
Peter F. Sorensen
Therese F. Yaeger
A Story of Nutrimental in Brazil: How Wholeness, Appreciation, and Inquiry Bring Out the Best in Human Organization
269(10)
Ilma O. Barros
David L. Cooperrider
Appreciative Inquiry with Teams
279(12)
Gervase R. Bushe
Appreciative Inquiry and Learning Assessment: An Embedded Evaluation Process in a Transnational Pharmaceutical Company
291(26)
Bernard J. Mohr
Elizabeth Smith
Jane M. Watkins
Appreciative Inquiry as a Team-development Intervention for Newly Formed Heterogeneous Groups
317(12)
Robert L. Head
Field Experiment in Appreciative Inquiry
329(12)
David A. Jones
Appreciative Inquiry Meets the Logical Positivist
341(8)
Peter F. Sorensen
Robert Head
Linda Sharkey
Dale Spartz
PART III
Appreciative Inquiry and the Conscious Evolution of Chaordic Organizations
349(14)
David Cooperrider
Is Appreciative Inquiry OD's Philosopher's Stone
363(16)
Peter F. Sorensen, Jr.
Joanne Preston
Thomas C. Head
Theresa Yaeger
Appreciative Inquiry: Debunking The Mythology Behind Resistance To Change
379(10)
Thomas C. Head
Three Perspectives on Appreciative Inquiry
389(8)
Robert T. Golembiewski
Postmodern Principles and Practices for Large Scale Organization Change and Global Cooperation
397(16)
Diana Whitney
Organizational Inquiry Model for Global Social Change Organizations
413(16)
Jane Magruder Watkins
David Cooperrider
From Local Conversations to Global Change: Experiencing the Worldwide Web Effect of Appreciative Inquiry
429(14)
Michael J. Mantel
James D. Ludema
From Deficit Discourse to Vocabularies of Hope: The Power of Appreciation
443(24)
James D. Ludema
Appreciative Inquiry Resource List
467
Dawn Cooperrider Dole

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