Organization Development and Society

Name: Organization Development and Society
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Organization Development and SocietyTheory and Practice of Organization Development Consulting\nAuthor(s): Baruch Shimoni\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138569645, 978-1138569645\nSynopsis\nOrganization Development and Society: Theory and Practice of Organization Development Consulting offers a new approach for the practice of organization development (OD). The new approach, a habitus oriented OD (HOOD), sees consultees' thinking and behavior a result of habitus, a cognitive structure developed historically in endless interactions between human behavior and social structures. HOOD has two goals:\n\nThe first goal is to redefine the objectives of individually oriented OD. The focus on habitus and social structure allows individually oriented OD scholars and practitioners to keep their subjective approach, which searches for consultees' inner world. However, this subjectivity searches not only for consultees' psy.