Key+Themes+Addressed+First+Halfof+Organization+Systems


 * __KEY THEMES ADDRESSED FIRST HALF OF ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS - PROFESSOR BECKER__**

**1. The Effective Consultant:** **- Masterful - Empowering Partner Vs Savior** **- Flawless - Acepting Vs Marginalizing** **- Effective - Collaborator Vs Expert** **Analysis of self, client and healthy relationship with client ala Peter Block, Marvin Weisbord, Keith Merron** **2. Organization Perspectives** **3. Theories & Applications** **- Richard Beckhard - planned organization-wide, managed from the top incrreasing organization health and** **and effectiveness - whole systems theory** **- Kurt Lewin - action research and his 3-step model** **- Chris Argyris - Avoiding marginality and creating awareness and trust** **- Stuart Hart - The triple bottom line, shrinking resources with doubling population** **- Ed Lawler - Values and Mission - Involvement; Core Organization Competencies ala Gary Hamel &** **C. K. Prahalad** **4. Diagnostic Models, Interventions, Processes** **Needed Qualities: Confidence in own process, Accurate perception, Acceptance of Client Doubts,** **Using stressful events as learning experience**
 * **What OD is**
 * **Key initiators of OD**
 * **Organizational Structures, cultures, interventions, processes**
 * **The Systems approach**
 * **Innovation and sustainability with shrinking resources**
 * **Organization Networking Analysis**
 * **Key initiators & Practitionersof OD and their theories**
 * **Ed Lawler - Diamond Model**
 * **Marvin Weisbord - Future Search - all stakeholders in the room at the same time**
 * **Joan Gallos - Reframing**
 * **Michael Sales - Tops, Middles, Bottoms, Environment's Others**
 * **William Becker - Three Domains: Marketplace, Liaisons, Internal Operations**
 * **Kurt Lewin - Unfeezing, Movement, Refreezing**
 * **Chris Argryis - Interventionist Challenges: Discrepant World, Marginality, Client Mistrust, Minimal Feedback**