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Organization Development | OD Resources - Variety of Topics |
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OD Resources Directory - Provided by the OD Network. You need to register as a visitor to access it. OD Research: What Seems to Work? Roles from Which OD Efforts Can Be Started OD Interventions - John E. Jone's list of interventions Appreciative Inquiry AI Commons - devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry. Hosted by Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. The Taos Institute - Social constructionist dialogues - of cutting edge significance within the social sciences and humanities - concern the processes by which humans generate meaning together. Our focus is on how social groups create and sustain beliefs in the real, the rational, and the good. Appreciative Inquiry and the Quest - a web site Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life What is Appreciative Inquiry? - Joe Hall and Sue Hammond Appreciative Inquiry - by Carter McNamara AI Survey -- survey using AI principles as part of an OD organizational assessment (The survey creators have generously shared the tool for use by others. Change Dynamics Kurt Lewin's Change TheoryOD in Religious Orders - From The OD Practioner Case Study: - A case study of an OD effort Contextual Issues Grid for Assessing Contextual Issues American
Demographics Trends - Future Values American Demographics - "The Emerging Culture" by Paul H. Ray, February 1997. Look in the back issues; report on a change in American culture; a comprehensive shift in values, world views, and ways of life. It appeals to nearly one-fourth of American adults, or 44 million persons. People who follow this new path are on the leading edge of several kinds of cultural change. They are interested in new kinds of products and services, and they often respond to advertising and marketing in unexpected ways. Cultural
Creatives - As
of the year 2000, there are 50 million adults in the United States who
have the worldview, values and lifestyle of the Cultural Creatives. (There
are probably about 80-90 million Cultural Creatives in the European Union
as well.) Public Agenda -- a public opinion research and citizen education organization; founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Culture The Culture Page - A variety of links and articles on organizational and international culture
Communication Styles Ways of communicating with others; improving the chance of being heard. Three Basic Communication Styles Communication Strategies with Persons of Different Psychological Types The Relationship Between Preferred Mode of Communication and Personality Type
Dialogue Dialogue: a proposal - by David Bohm, Donald Factor and Peter Garrett; "Dialogue is a way of observing, collectively, how hidden values and intentions can control our behavior, and how unnoticed cultural differences can clash without our realizing what is occurring. It can therefore be seen as an arena in which collective learning takes place and out of which a sense of increased harmony, fellowship and creativity can arise." On Facilitation & Purpose - by Donald Factor Dialogue - by Anthony Blake "is people talking together. The important thing is that the people agree to do just that and nothing else. They are not concerned with winning arguments, coming to conclusions, solving problems, resolving conflicts, achieving consensus - or anything else other than talking. This gives them an opportunity to delve into talking and what it does." Dialogue Culture: Towards a climate of intellectual and compassionate empowering, sharing, and co-creation - by Heiner Benking, 1998 Dialogue and Organizational Transformation - by Glenna Gerard & Linda Teurfs Aurora
Now Foundation - To raise personal and social awareness and
responsibility by inspiring people--especially young people--to use
their unique skills, perspectives and gifts in a collaborative way; to
creatively address complex, interconnected problems from a more holistic
perspective. Intercultural Press -- books, simulations, and other training materials about crossing cultures. Empowerment & Participation Aspects of Shared Responsibility in Organizations Articles
about Empowerment - by Jeanie
Marshall on personal development & group and/or Organizational
Development Emotional
Intelligence The Consortium -- Exists to aid the advancement of research and practice related to emotional intelligence in organizations Emotional Intelligence Services - Mission is to provide world-class information, resources and tools to improve personal effectiveness and organizational performance Family Businesses Family Firm Institute - professional organization dedicated to assisting family firms by increasing the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge of family business advisors, educators, researchers and consultants Fun & Making Fun of Ourselves Despair, Inc - posters and awards for despair, teambreaking, failure to succeed, etc. Future Search - An innovative planning conference; addresses two goals at the same time, (1) helping large diverse groups discover values, purposes, and projects they hold in common; and (2) enabling people to create a desired future together and start implementing right away. Future search is especially helpful in uncertain, fast-changing situations. Participants need no prior training or expertise. People build on what they already have Human Behavior in Organizations Human Behavior in the Workplace: Core Theories - R. Gallagher Johari Window Named after Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. It was first used in an information session at the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development in 1955. The Johari Window: A Window onto Interpersonal Communication The Johari Window: A Graphic Model of Awareness in Interpersonal Relations - introduction Johari Window - related to self-disclosure; NOTE: Click on "Jm" when at site Self-disclosure - explores self-discloser using Johari Window Johari Window - Self-Assessment Tool Leadership Leadership without Easy Answers - A conversation with Ronald Heifetz:by Joe Flower Adaptive Change: What’s Essential and What’s Expendable? - Conversation with Ronald Heifet Center for Creative Leadership LeaderLinks - Management General SuperSite - Links for leader Founder's Syndrome: How Corporations Suffer -- and Can Recover (for nonprofit or for-profit organizations) - by Carter McNamara The Leadership Grid -by Robert R. Blake and Jane S. Mouton provides a framework for understanding types of leadership. Douglas McGregor - Theory X and Y - an introduction Overview of Leadership in Organizations - by Carter McNamara Self-Differentiated Leadership - Family Systems Thinking & Leadership Basic Model - R. Gallagher A New Orientation - Leadership through Self-Differentiation - class notes based on Reinventing Leadership, Edwin H. Friedman Family Systems Thinking, Management and Leadership - by Cheryl Hoskins Anxious Response to Change: the Leader's Role in Calming the System - by Katherine Kott The Nine Concepts of Bowen Theory - by Andrea Maloney-Schara, LCSWA Triangles: A Study In Three Parts - by Jonathan Singer, 1994 Servant Leadership The
Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership Learning Organizations Society for Organizational Learning - SoL is a global learning community dedicated to building knowledge about fundamental institutional change. We aim to help build organizations worthy of people's fullest commitment Fifth Discipline - This web site is intended to serve the far-flung community of learning organization practitioners The Learning History Project (MIT) - An approach for helping an organization learn from the experience and implications of its own learning and change initiatives; a document that helps an organization listen to what "it is trying to tell itself" about its own learning and change efforts. The Program on Social and and Organizational Learning - at George Mason University The Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies Program - at the University of New Mexico The Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning - at George Washington University "Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations" Resilient Communities -- was a major undertaking to help people discover our own capacities for resilience at the close of the millennium. This site now serves as a repository for the resources that were developed and offered as part of that initiative.
Life
Cycles Basic Overview of Organizational Life Cycles Organizational Life Cycles Revisited Five Phases of The Organizational Life Cycle by Murray Johannsen Three Organization Types - by Mark White - Relates organizational type and life cycles Meetings The Makings of a Good Meeting - a free, downloadable manual Transformational Dialogues: Facilitator Training Manual The Wisdom Council: A New Way to Build Community in Large Organizations
Tavistock Group Relations: An Introduction" - this is an on-line book on Tavistock The Tavistock Institute - Study of group relations; Tavistock group relations tradition A. K. Rice Institute - Study of group relations; Tavistock group relations tradition The Boston Center of the A.K Rice Institute - Study of group relations; Tavistock group relations tradition The Washington-Baltimore Center of the A.K. Rice Institute - Study of group relations; Tavistock group relations tradition Teams & Meetings The
Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Team Management Systems in
Teams Experiential
Training: A Stepping Stone for Work Teams
Teams and Teamwork - Articles from NASA, available through your library Free Articles on Teams - From Glenn Parker's website Center for the Study of Work Teams International Association of Facilitators Teamworks: Skills for Collaborative Work The Facilitator - Professional facilitator newsletter Meeting Guides - A series of easy-to-read guides; insight into the things you do in meetings, the tools you use in them Center for Studies in Creativity - To promote and improve our understanding of creativity and its many applications; a learning laboratory where developing, exchanging and disseminating resources for understanding and applying creativity is focused on empowering people, transforming knowledge, and enhancing the quality of life; at Buffalo State College Team Management Systems - An integrated system of work based, research proven assessments and feedback instruments- supports individuals, teams and organizations to effect positive, lasting change and achieve higher performance NetAge - Products and services to help successfully launch, manage, and sustain virtual teams; focus on people, not technology alone The Art of Team Building - reviews several tools used in some team building work; including MBTI, Johari Window Theory Organizational Theory: Determinants of Structure Organizational Science in a Postmodern Context Trust Development & Conflict Management Trust: A New Vision of Human Relationships for Business, Education, Family, and Personal Living by Jack R. Gibb Paper on the Constructive Management of Conflict National Network for Collaboration American Arbitration Association The ARIA Group - is a conflict resolution consulting firm based in Yellow Springs, Ohio with Associates around the world. It assists organizational and community leaders to creatively transform deep and destructive conflict. Asherman Associates - Providers of training programs in negotiations skills; articles on a variety of negotiation topics The Academy of Management: Conflict Management Division - Supports research, teaching and practice in the areas of conflict, power and negotiation Association for Conflict Resolution - The Association for Conflict Resolution is a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution. Polarity Management - Offers an approach to distinguish between problems that are inherently solvable and finite, and those which are both unsolvable and unavoidable Lombard Mennonite Peace Center - Mediation resources Building Trust - by Carter McNamara Managing Conflict and the Commitment Level Model Explosive Issues and Emotional Disarmament - by Carl S. Dudley & Hugh F. Halverstadt; on congregations and homosexuality How Disputes Escalate by James Creihton Intervention Moments: Places and Times When There is Opportunity for Change - By Loren Mead, some useful material that relates to conflict management.
Levels of Conflict Levels
of Conflict (an overview of conflict management) The Pastor’s Role in Managing Church Conflict - Marlin E. Thomas; explores Levels of Conflict and the pastor's role Type Styles-based instruments are training tools that reduce the complexities of human behavior to a number of styles. They are useful in providing people with insight into themselves and others. and providing a language for talking about similarities and differences.
In Addition To Type Resources - Other Instruments LIFO - Applications for teamwork, communication and productivity Value Centered Organizations Model on Values Centered Organizations - R. Gallagher Business Ethics Resources - an introductory set of resources Businesses for Social Responsibility - a resource for companies seeking to sustain their commercial success in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment. Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility - an association of Maine businesses committed to creating a new business climate that recognizes that long-term, sustainable profitability is directly linked to acting in a socially responsible, ethical and compassionate manner. Net Impact - network of emerging business leaders Applied Ethics Resources - www resources The Institute for Business & Professional Ethics at DePaul University Websites of Organizations Exploring How to Be Value Centered The Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics (JSCOPE) - an organization of military professionals, academics and others formed to discuss ethical issues relevant to the military. More on Organization Development Redesigning
Human and Global Systems: A Conceptual and Strategic Framework by
Saul Eisen, Ph.D. One World Music - Uses hands-on music making as a way to foster teamwork, leadership and innovation. |
