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Intervening and Changing: Looking for Meaning in Interactions
Boonstra
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Description for Intervening and Changing: Looking for Meaning in Interactions
Hardcover. Presenting new thinking in organizational psychology from the Netherlands, Intervening and Changing is a guide to applying global thinking and democratic values to achieve innovation. Editor(s): Boonstra, Jaap J.; de Caluwe, Leon. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 172 x 25. Weight in Grams: 812.
Presenting new thinking in organizational psychology from the Netherlands, Intervening and Changing is a guide to applying global thinking and democratic values to achieve innovation. Expertly steered by Jaap Boonstra and Leon de Caluwe, it explores tensions and paradoxes in the field of organizational change and presents interventions based in social interaction theory. Its vision is of people collaborating, making sense of their work and living situations and developing collaborative action for breakthrough innovation will be a source of inspiration for any manager, consultant or change agent.
Presenting new thinking in organizational psychology from the Netherlands, Intervening and Changing is a guide to applying global thinking and democratic values to achieve innovation. Expertly steered by Jaap Boonstra and Leon de Caluwe, it explores tensions and paradoxes in the field of organizational change and presents interventions based in social interaction theory. Its vision is of people collaborating, making sense of their work and living situations and developing collaborative action for breakthrough innovation will be a source of inspiration for any manager, consultant or change agent.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
811g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780470512012
SKU
V9780470512012
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Ref
99-15
About Boonstra
Jaap J. Boonstra is a Professor of Organizational Change and Development in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is also Dean and Scientific Director of Sioo, Inter-university Centre for Organizational Change and Learning. Founded by the Dutch universities, Sioo has been the bridge between scientifically founded theory and the practice of organizational and change processes in the Netherlands since 1958. He is also a visiting professor in Esade Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He is a research fellow and member of the scientific staff of The Netherlands School of Communications Research and the Amsterdam School of Social Research. After studying social and organizational psychology at Leiden University, The Netherlands, he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on integral organizational development and management of complex change processes. Previously, he was Associate Professor in organizational psychology at Leiden University, and has worked as a consultant, researcher, and managing partner at the Research Foundation for NewTechnology and Organizational Development. He lectures on the management of change, strategic decision-making, power and politics in organizations, and organizational learning. He has conducted research into the social and organizational aspects of technological innovations, sustainable development and change of organizations, strategic decision-making, and innovation. His research interests focus on barriers to organizational change and innovation, power dynamics in organizational change, sustainable development of organizations, democratic governance, and societal development. He has published over a hundred articles on technological and organizational innovation, management of organizational change, organizational learning, politics in organizations, strategic decision-making and fundamental change programmes in the service sector, and public administration in the Academy of Management Review, Concepts and Transformations, the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and Applied Psychology: An International Review. He is a member of the editorial board of several journals. Recently, he published a book on designing and developing organizations, and edited a special issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology on power dynamics and organizational change. Leon de Caluwe is a Management Consultant and Professor of Change Management at the Vrije Universteit - VU . Together with Hans Vermaak he co-created the Thinking in Colors theory. In 2001, Leon de Caluwe was appointed as a professor at Vrije Universiteit and he manages the Center for Research in Consultancy which studies the role, interventions and effectiveness of management consultants.
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