Organizations Connected
A Handbook of Systemic Consultation
David Campbell editor Clare Huffington editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:31st Dec '08
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This book explores how experienced consultants utilize a systemic approach to foster organizational change, detailing their methods through case examples and reflecting on the insights gained from their practices.
Organizations Connected delves into the mindset of seasoned consultants as they navigate their roles within organizations, aiming to foster change and redefine their relationships with clients based on evolving organizational needs. Through a systemic lens, the contributors share insights into their consultancy practices, illustrating their key concepts with real-world case examples. Each chapter provides a detailed account of specific exercises and techniques inspired by systemic thinking, offering readers a practical understanding of how these approaches can be applied in various contexts.
The contributors, all established consultants, reflect on the complexities of organizational dynamics and the unique perspective that systemic methodologies bring to the table. They emphasize the importance of feedback, the examination of underlying beliefs that perpetuate behavioral patterns, and the evolution of cultural values within organizations. By showcasing their interventions, the authors highlight the multifaceted value of systemic work and the ways in which it can enhance organizational effectiveness.
Structured to facilitate connection with each contributor's experiences, the book balances the need for a coherent narrative with the recognition of established stages of consultation. This approach ensures that readers, regardless of their familiarity with systemic practices, can engage meaningfully with the material. Overall, Organizations Connected serves as both a practical guide and a reflective exploration of the systemic paradigm in consultancy, offering valuable lessons for practitioners and organizations alike.
'Describing and charting the way in which a consultant working from the systemic paradigm brings a unique lens to the understanding of organizational complexity has been, and remains, a challenging task in a global corporate world where the demand is always for products, new interventions, and approaches that "work" and can be measured.The structure of the chapters in this book offers readers the opportunity to connect to each contributor's account of his or her work, showing how systemic ideas and practices shape a piece of consultation, while simultaneously respecting the need for the generic stages of consultation identified by the editors, in their Introduction to remain visible and recognizable to the readers, whatever familiarity and fluency with systemic thinking practices they may bring to the text.The interventions described by the contributors, all established and respected consultants, elegantly reflect a number of facets of the value of systemic work in organizations - namely, the distinctive ways systemic practitioners pay attention to and use feedback, examine and seek to understand beliefs that sustain repetitive patterns of behaviour, explore the development over time of cultural values in an organization, seek to increase possible explanations for the above, and clarify roles and tasks in relation to specific contexts, to mention only a few.'- David Campbell and Ros Draper, from the Series Editors' ForewordDavid Campbell and Clare Huffington are both pioneering organizational consultants with many years' experience of finding innovative and convincing ways to offer systemic ideas and practices to the corporate world in the public, private, and voluntary sectors.
ISBN: 9781855756694
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256 pages