The Handbook of Large Group Methods
Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and Communities
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Beschreibung
Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole systemtogether to discuss and take action on the target agenda. Thatagenda varies from future plans, products, and services, toredesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems.The Handbook of Large Group Methods takes the next step indemonstrating through a series of cases how Large Group Methods arecurrently being used to address twenty-first-century challenges inorganizations and communities today, including:
* Working with widely dispersed organizations, and the problem ofinvolvement and participation
* Working with organizations facing a serious businesscrisis
* Working with organizations in polarized and politicizedenvironments
* Working in community settings with diverse interest groups
* Working at the global level and adapting these methods forcross-cultural use
* Embedding and sustaining new patterns of working together inorganizations and communities
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Barbara Benedict Bunker
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"Overall, the book is well planned and presented. True to the editors' preference, each chapter is essentially a story about approach to a particular problem." (PsycCritiques, 09/06/2007)"There is nothing more important in a complex, globalinterdependent world than to have some road maps and drivinginstructions on how to manage change in large systems. Bunker andAlban have provided the essential concepts of Large Group Methods,case examples, and, most important, prescriptions for how to managelarge systems change successfully. This is a must-read for allenterprise managers."
--Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor ofManagement-Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
"This book offers an exceptional look at large group process,brought to life by powerful stories from real organizations andcommunities. There's no better way to understand themethodology and its potential. This extraordinary collection ofstories demonstrates the power of large group processes in avariety of organizational settings. I can't imagine a betterway to understand the methodology and its potential to impactorganizations of all kinds."
--June Delano, senior practice leader, The Monitor Group
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