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Appreciative inquiry : change at the speed of imagination / Jane Magruder Watkins, Bernard J. Mohr, Ralph Kelly.

By: Watkins, Jane Magruder.
Contributor(s): Mohr, Bernard J | Kelly, Ralph, 1938-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Practicing organization development series: 35.Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, ©2011Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781118015100; 111801510X; 9781118015117; 1118015118; 9781118015124; 1118015126; 9781118256060; 1118256069.Subject(s): Organizational change | Appreciative inquiry | Business | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment | Appreciative inquiry | Organizational changeGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Appreciative inquiry.DDC classification: 658.4/06 | 658.4063 Online resources: Wiley Online Library
Contents:
The case for a new approach to change -- Appreciative inquiry : history, theory, and practice -- Appreciative inquiry as a perspective for organization change -- Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry (define) -- Inquire into stories of what gives life in the system (discover) -- Locate themes that appear in the stories (discover) -- Create shared images for a preferred future (dream) -- Innovate ways to create that preferred future (deliver) -- Valuation.
Summary: "This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps OD and HR professionals tap into inspiring "high point" accounts of personal or collective capacity. This new edition puts the focus on how AI really works and adds guidelines on how to apply AI in a variety of organizational situations and for a variety of initiatives such as coaching, leadership development, strategic planning, and teambuilding. It contains tools and other resources to help with immediate use in the workplace and new and updated case studies that show how it really works."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.

The case for a new approach to change -- Appreciative inquiry : history, theory, and practice -- Appreciative inquiry as a perspective for organization change -- Choose the positive as the focus of inquiry (define) -- Inquire into stories of what gives life in the system (discover) -- Locate themes that appear in the stories (discover) -- Create shared images for a preferred future (dream) -- Innovate ways to create that preferred future (deliver) -- Valuation.

"This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps OD and HR professionals tap into inspiring "high point" accounts of personal or collective capacity. This new edition puts the focus on how AI really works and adds guidelines on how to apply AI in a variety of organizational situations and for a variety of initiatives such as coaching, leadership development, strategic planning, and teambuilding. It contains tools and other resources to help with immediate use in the workplace and new and updated case studies that show how it really works."--Provided by publisher.

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