Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Way to Manage Change

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Abstract

In our problems lie our greatest opportunities. Appreciative inquiry creates a dialogic environment that excites imagination. The appreciative conversations that take place one to one, in small groups, and in ever larger circles, serve to build trust and strengthen relationships allowing for the disruption of old patterns of thinking. This opens a pathway for new insights, new hope, and therefore new possibilities. We are better able to reach for these new possibilities when we are mindful of the successes we have had and of the strengths in our system. The best of our past gives us new confidence permitting us to be bold in our aspirations. The present article illustrates the ideas and approach of appreciative inquiry and demonstrates that our biggest challenge as well as opportunity lies in developing a platform for co-creating a new plane of understanding, a more interesting place, where individual passion and collective commitment, fuelled by a bold and expanded image of what is possible join forces in pursuit of the ideal.

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Product Type Technical Note
Reference No. OB0229TEC
Title Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Way to Manage Change
Pages 9
Published on Mar 14, 2018
Authors Gupta, Vishal; Shah, Binita;
Area Organizational Behaviour (OB)
Discipline Communication, Ethics and Governance, Human Resource Management, Management Education , Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, Public Policy and Law, Strategic Management
Sector Cooperatives, Education, Government, Health, Manufacturing, Public Sector
Learning Objective 1.Describes the technique of appreciative inquiry. 2. Discusses a positive model of managing change in organizations. 3. Provides examples of applications of appreciative inquiry. 4. Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of appreciative inquiry.
Keywords Change Management; Appreciative Inquiry: Action Research; Organizational Development; Leadership; Postivie Psychology
Country India
State Gujarat
City Ahmedabad
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