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Action research in OD: RIP?

✍ Scribed by Gary N. McLean

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
201 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1044-8004

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✦ Synopsis

Since the 1950s, action research has been the foundational core of organization development (OD) and is consistently identified as one of the roots of its present-day practice. But within the past few years, there has been increasing uneasiness with the action research approach to OD, perhaps most cogently argued in the appreciative inquiry approach to OD. Two recent articles have brought this issue to the fore once again (Bushe, 1995;Gotches and Ludema, 1995).

Gotches and Ludema interviewed David Coopemder, one of the two primary drivers behind appreciative inquiry. The other is Suresh Srivastva (see Cooperrider and Srivastva, 1987). In the interview, Coopemder suggests that action research focuses on "human deficit" by defining "our whole field as problem solving" (Gotches and Ludema, 1995, p. 10). The following brief explanation of appreciative inquiry is also provided:

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