Key+Concepts+first+four+weeks


 * __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 **
 * ** What OD is **
 * ** Key initiators of OD **
 * ** Organizational Structures, cultures, interventions, processes **
 * ** The Systems approach **
 * ** Innovation and sustainability with shrinking resources **
 * ** Organization Networking Analysis **
 * 3. Theories & Applications **
 * ** Key initiators & Practitionersof OD and their theories **
 * - 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 **
 * ** 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 **
 * Needed Qualities: Confidence in own process, Accurate perception, Acceptance of Client Doubts, **
 * Using stressful events as learning experience **