Author: D L Cooperrider Organizational Development Practitioner Date: 01/01/1996 Volume: 28 Pages: 5-11 Annotation: Presented here is a thesis, a proposition, regarding the future of OD. It is a stand which I take with some hesitation, even with some tentativeness.…
Author: D L Cooperrider Organization Development Practitioner Date: 01/01/1996 Volume: 28 Pages: 23-33 Annotation: Over the years practitioners have been asking about tools (in particular proposals) that will transform their consulting practices. This article gives examples of proposals that set…
Author: David L. Cooperrider , Diana Whitney Editor: Peggy Holman , Tom Devane Berrett-Koehler Publishers Date: 01/01/1999 Annotation: This booklet gives an overview of Appreciative Inquiry, a change strategy which supports full-voiced appreciative participation in order to tap an organization’s…
Chapter 2 Positive Image, Positive Action: The Affirmative Basis of Organising David L. Cooperrider Case Western Reserve University Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact.…
Author: David Cooperrider , Suresh Srivastva Editor: D Cooperrider , P F Sorensen , D Whitney Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Positive Theory of Change Date: 01/01/2000 Annotation: Abstract This chapter presents a conceptual refiguration of action-research based…
Author: G R Bushe Organization Development Journal Date: 01/01/1995 Volume: 13 Pages: 14-22 Annotation: Since Cooperrider & Srivastva's (1987) original article on appreciative inquiry there has been a lot of excitement and experimentation with this new form of action research.…
Author: G R Bushe Organization Development Journal Date: 01/01/1998 Volume: 16 Pages: 41-50 Annotation: Executive SummaryThis article describes the author's thoughts and experiences in trying to help people have conversations that generate new, affirming and generative images. A simple process…
Author: G Bushe Editor: D Cooperrider , P Sorensen , D Whitney , T Yaeger In Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking human organization toward a positive theory of change Date: 01/01/1999 Annotation: Bushe describes five different ways of thinking about how an…
Author: Lia Bosch Lessons from the Field: Applying Appreciative Inquiry Date: 01/01/1998 In this chapter, Bosch explores using an appreciative approach to exit interviews, turning the interview into an opportunity to discover the organization’s core life giving factors. Bosch experimented…
Author: Larissa Marczak Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH United States Date 09/01/1998 Annotation: Nutrimental is a food company founded in Curitiba in 1968. Its business consists of dehydrating food. For many years Nutrimental worked only with the government that…