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About this book
Organisational Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach draws on conventional, critical, and complexity thinking in relation to organisational development with a view to exploring what's useful and what's not.
This book proffers an approach to organisational development that helps to develop, support, and maintain more democratic, collaborative, inclusive and sustainable ways of learning, working, and living. The author explores the practicalities of working with the frustrations and inconsistencies involved in coping with the patterns of human interaction that inevitably make up organisations, where planned and emergent approaches co-exist, whether we would like them to or not. Woven in between the personal essays are vignettes from a range of international practitioners reflecting on their own experiences in the field.
This book, a radically different approach to organisational development, is suitable for advanced students and researchers of organisation and organisational development, organisation studies, human resource management, and executive education. It will also be of interest to practising managers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 See it. Say it. Sorted: Reflections on facilitation
- 3 Ulysses: A literature review (of sorts)
- 4 Rob’s vignette — the Chichester practice-based MBA: Emphasising relational learning
- 5 You(‘ll) never walk alone: Reflections on the large group
- 6 Rikke’s vignette — when the group does the work: Collaborating around leadership development
- 7 No more heroes: Leadership and leadership development revisited
- 8 Helen’s vignette – a fusion of horizons
- 9 Looks familiar: Rethinking organisational development
- 10 Rebecca’s vignette – ‘climate cafes’: A temporary group as a container for climate distress?
- 11 What’s the story: Writing as practice
- 12 Writing, just for the fun of it: A summary (of sorts)
- Bibliography
- Index