Watkins, Jane Magruder. creator Mohr, Bernard J. Kelly, Ralph 1938- text bibliography Electronic books. cau San Francisco, CA Pfeiffer ©2011 2011 2nd ed. monographic eng

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1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations. "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. 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. Jane Magruder Watkins, Bernard J. Mohr, Ralph Kelly. Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index. Organizational change Appreciative inquiry Business BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Structural Adjustment Appreciative inquiry Organizational change HD58.8 .W388 2011eb 658.4/06 658.4063 Watkins, Jane Magruder. San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, ©2011 2nd ed. (DLC) 2010051403 (OCoLC)669751062 9781118015100 111801510X 9781118015117 1118015118 9781118015124 1118015126 9781118256060 1118256069 CL0500000125 Safari Books Online CF03E178-624F-4F25-8ED1-280744E59D6C OverDrive, Inc. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118256060 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118256060 ICG 110406 20171119091052.0 ocn711709821 eng