Research in organizational change and development / edited by Debra A. Noumair, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani.

Includes bibliographical references.

Front Cover; Research in Organizational Change and Development; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Reference; Working Together Revisited; The Environment for Collaborative Research; The Dynamics of Partnership and Collaboration; Complementarity of Interests and Skills; Managing Collaboration; Personal Styles; The Changing Nature of Collaboration; The Impact of Career Changes; The Role of Successful Outcomes; Lessons Learned; Some Further Thoughts; Conclusion; References; Reflections on Gender and Organization Development Consultation; The World I was Born Into.

Group Dynamics and Gender Awareness in the 1960s and Early 1970sEarly OD: Survey Feedback in School Systems and Planned Change; Radical Change at NTL Institute; Gender, Diversity, and the Role of the Caucus; Consulting and Training about Gender and Diversity; My Personal Response to Gender and Diversity Experiences; Organization Development Consulting -- Dealing with Sexism; The 1980s -- More and More Women in OD; Gender, New OD Methods, Collaboration, and Competition; Theory and Research about Gender and Its Application; Professional Associations, Gender, and Inclusiveness.

Gender, Career Goals, and RecognitionIntegration: Managing the Scholar-Practitioner Dilemma; Three Research Forays into the Unknown; Foray 1: Intuitive Practitioner Knowledge; Foray 2: Women's Competitive Behavior; Foray 3: Large Group Interventions or Methods; The Other Dilemma; Implications for OD Practitioners Today; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: When Research Questions Ought to Change; Introduction; Identifying and Specifying Appropriate Research Questions; Gap-Spotting; Systematic Literature Reviews; Counterfactual Reasoning.

The Importance of Developing and Changing Research QuestionsThe Positive Consequences of Allowing Room for Research Questions to Evolve; Action Research and the Development of Research Questions; Evolution of Research Questions and the Quality of Action Research; Bilingual Education in the Lomond School; Context of the Study; Formulation of the Initial Goal; Initial Research Question(s) and Purpose; How the Project Team Worked to Achieve the Goals; Additional Activities Undertaken in the First Year; Revising the Research Question(s) in the Second Year: Minor Changes.

Minor Changes and Their Impact on the ProjectRevising the Research Question(s) in the Third Year: Major Changes; Major Change in the Third Year; Impact of the New Law on the Action Research Project; Discussion; Concluding Commentary; Refining and Reframing in "Creative" Action Research; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; The Perception of Change Strategy Scale: Validating the Measure; Introduction; Literature Review; Empirical-Rational Change Strategy; Normative-Re-Educative Change Strategy; Power-Coercive Change Strategy; Study 1: Exploratory Phase; Study 2: Reliability Phase.

Volume twenty-four of Research in Organizational Change and Development continues the tradition of providing a platform for scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners to share new thought provoking, research-based insights. Collaboration of various kinds is an underlying theme of the manuscripts in this volume.

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