Overview

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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Author:   Barbara Benedict Bunker ,  Billie T. Alban
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780787903244

ISBN 10:   0787903248
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   24 September 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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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

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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.

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