Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Transformation: Reports from the Field

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Positive organizational change does not have to be planned or managed top down in a linear, urgent manner. Rather, it can be "unleashed" or discovered by helping people within organizations to identify their own best experiences in the past, and then use them to imagine, design, and bring into being the organization they want. The method is called "Appreciative Inquiry." The volume editors and their panel of experts examine how AI works in practice, and how its many (and often surprising) benefits can be realized in just about any organization. The result is a major explication and source book for leaders, change managers, and HR/OD specialists.

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Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Transformation: Reports from the Field is organized into four subsections, with a good overview and summary of each in the introductory chapter. If one was to approach this book as a consulting resource, which is highly recommended, the intorduction offers enough information to choose which particular case is most useful in your present circumstances. Furthermore, all the cases in the book are well written, engaging, and many include reflections of the practitioners using AI, an invaluable resource for others wishing to use it.-Personnel Psychology
"Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Transformation: Reports from the Field is organized into four subsections, with a good overview and summary of each in the introductory chapter. If one was to approach this book as a consulting resource, which is highly recommended, the intorduction offers enough information to choose which particular case is most useful in your present circumstances. Furthermore, all the cases in the book are well written, engaging, and many include reflections of the practitioners using AI, an invaluable resource for others wishing to use it."-Personnel Psychology

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RONALD FRY is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Weatherhead School's Executive MBA Program. FRANK BARRETT is Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Ca. JANE SEILING is a consultant, author, speaker and Founder of the Business Performance Group, Lima, Oh. DIANA WHITNEY is President of the Corporation for Positive Change, Taos, N.M., and co-Founder of the Taos Institute, Cleveland, Oh.