Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
As the challenges of global competition, demands for improved quality, and increasingly shorter product life cycles become facts of daily business life, organizations find themselves under intense pressure to become more competitive. Whether they are multinational corporations, small businesses, schools, hospitals, voluntary agencies, governments, or religious institutions, they must learn how to change rapidly in order to survive in a turbulent environment. And as organizations shift from a traditional hierarchical structure to a more flexible and participative networking style, leaders need a decision-making process that will foster the involvement and commitment of all of their people - and align them to common goals. Large group interventions can provide this process, bringing as many as 2,000 employees and customers together in one location for activities as diverse as creating future direction, restructuring the organization, solving problems, and generating new ideas and products. Large Group Interventions is the first book to present and compare different large group intervention methods and describe the situations and conditions under which each might be used. Barbara Benedict Bunker and Billie T. Alban present a comprehensive overview of the twelve methods of large group interventions currently in practice. The authors describe the methods' origins, explore their differences and similarities, and present vivid examples and case studies that give the reader a firsthand account of each intervention.
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index.
Table of Contents
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