Barbara Benedict Bunker, Billie T. Alban

Large Group Interventions

Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Large Group Interventions presents a comprehensive overview of twelve of the most powerful methods of large group interventions in use today. This comprehensive guide describes the methods' origins, explores their differences and similarities, and presents vivid examples and case studies of each intervention method in action. Bring together as many as two thousand employees and customers in one location for activities as diverse as creating future direction, restructuring the organization, solving problems, and generating new ideas.

Large Group Interventions covers: __A brief history of large group interventions __The search conference __Real-time strategic change __Participative design __Large group dynamics Large Group Interventions is the first and only book to present and compare different large group intervention methods and describe the situations and conditions under which each might be used.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780787903244
• ISBN-10: 0787903248
• Artikelnr.: 14879446

Autorenporträt

Barbara Benedict Bunker is emeritus professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has taught in executive development programs at Columbia, Pepperdine, and the Harvard University School of Education and has held Fulbright Lectureships in the business schools of Keio University and Kobe University in Japan. Billie T. Alban is president of Alban and Williams, Ltd., and an internationally known management consultant whose clients include British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Exxon, and Kraft/General Foods. She teaches in executive development programs at Columbia, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Pepperdine and has served on the board of the Organization Development Network. Bunker and Alban are coauthors of Large Group Interventions from Jossey-Bass.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword -
W.Warner Burke Preface The Authors
Part One: An Introduction to Large Group Interventions
1. Of Mud Flats and Solid Brass
2. A Brief History of Large Group Interventions
Part Two: The Methods: Creating the Future Together
3. The Search Conference
4. Future Search
5. Real Time Strategic Change
6. ICA Strategic Planning Process Part Two Summary
Part Three: The Methods: Work Design
7. The Conference Model
8. Fast Cycle Full Particiption Work Design
9. Real Time Work Design
10. Participative Design Part Three Summary
Part Four: The Methods: Whole-System Participative Work
11. Simu-Real
12. Work-Out
13. Open Space Technology Part Four Summary
Part Five: Group Dynamics, New Directions, and How to Move Ahead
14. Large Group Dynamics
15. Current Innovations and Underlying Values
Appendix References Index