Constructive Discourse and Human Organization
Subtitle: Advances in Appreciative Inquiry (Advances in Appreciative Inquiry Series)
Contributors: David L Cooperrider (Editor); Michel Avital (Editor)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: May 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780762308927
Subjects: Organizational theory & behaviour; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Business / Economics / Finance; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Applied Psychology; Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management; Psychology-Applied Psychology; Auditing - General; General
First sentence: Although dialogue as a topic of study is rarely mentioned in traditional handbooks of organizational study and has remained generally unexplored in the Appreciative Inquiry literature, its importance to organizational functioning has been subtly apparent since the earliest scientific studies in the field.