Full Description
This work provides a rich mine of ideas to stimulate thinking about organisational interaction, and organisations in relation to various socio/cultural values.
Contents
Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Frameworks for the organization and for the agent of change -- Language, practices, and record-keeping: a reflective consultation and some institutional changes that resulted from it -- Connecting personal experience to the primary task: a model for consulting to organizations -- The feelings of the consultant as indicators of problems and solutions -- Black people working in "white institutions": lessons from personal experience -- Organizational change in the Probation Service -- Collaborative inquiry: a postmodern approach to organizational consultation -- "Inside" consultation through self-differentiation: stimulating organizational development in the IDF's care of intractable, war-related, traumatic disorders -- Family-school collaboration: consultation to achieve institutional and community change
