TY  - BOOK
AU  - Passmore,Jonathan
AU  - Lewis,Sarah
AU  - Cantore,Stefan
AU  - Passmore,Jonathan
AU  - Cantore,Stephen
TI  - Appreciative inquiry for change management: using AI to facilitate organizational development 
SN  - 9780749450717 (hbk.) :
AV  - HD58.8 
U1  - 658.4063 LEW 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Kogan Page
KW  - Organizational effectiveness
KW  - Management
KW  - Employee participation
KW  - Appreciative inquiry
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Organizational behavior
KW  - Communication in management
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Personnel & human resources management
KW  - thema
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p.231-239) and index; Organisations as machines, workers as cogs and management as a control process; An alternative approach: organizations as living human systems; The development of conversational approaches to organizational change; Appreciative Inquiry: How do you do it?; The power of the question; The power of conversation; Extending practice: working with story in organizations; Developing your conversational practice; Becoming an appreciative conversational practitioner; How to introduce appreciative inquiry and related approaches to your organization
N2  - Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is one of the most exciting and increasingly recognised concepts in facilitating organisational change. This book studies AI in depth, illustrating the method of asking particular questions and envisioning the future, encouraging staff to consider both the positive and negative systems in place
ER  -