Social Space as a Generative Image for Dialogic Organization Development
Research in Organizational Change and Development
ISBN: 978-1-78635-360-3, eISBN: 978-1-78635-359-7
Publication date: 21 July 2016
Abstract
Social space, the central construct in field theory, offers dialogic organization development a generative image similar to open systems for diagnostic OD. Social space imagery enables people to think, feel, and act in ways that exercise greater choice over the realities they construct and that construct them. This process is illustrated through a “transitional space” that enabled people with severe disabilities to overcome stigma and isolation. Social spatial imagery moves dialogic OD away from systems imagery and language, addresses ambivalence about self and mind, clarifies the meaning of reality, and reconnects it to its Lewinian roots.
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Citation
Friedman, V.J., Sykes, I., Lapidot-Lefler, N. and Haj, N. (2016), "Social Space as a Generative Image for Dialogic Organization Development", Research in Organizational Change and Development (Research in Organizational Change and Development, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 113-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-301620160000024005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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