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Article: Appreciative inquiry with an executive team: Moving along the action research continum
- Article from:
- Organization Development Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright O D Institute Fall 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
A large-scale organizational change effort was initiated in a 120-person non-profit metropolitan health care facility beginning in 1996. This case summarizes the history of that change effort, focusing on the most recent executive retreat. It illustrates the progressive implementation of increasingly collaborative action research processes over time. Applications of traditional action research approaches, used earlier in the change effort, are contrasted with more contemporary adaptations such as Appreciative Inquiry (AI).
Introduction
"Action research" underlies most current OD approaches for studying and simultaneously changing social systems. The historical roots of action ...