Organization 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:
The 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' psychological but their social dispositions. It views the individual level, the habitus, as a site of social dispositions that from within the individual consultees generate thoughts and behaviors in a way that closely corresponds with the organization's social structure; with power relations and social positions and with accepted metaphors and common language. The HOOD links the concept of habitus to the field of OD and in so doing provides an alternative way to incorporate the individual and the social in OD.
HOOD's second goal is to re/position OD between organizations and society and thus to produce a consulting practice that is both pragmatic and human. It is pragmatic since incorporation of habitus enables the consultant to liberate consultees' perspectives and behavior from the organization's social and structural hoops and to use these perspectives in processes of change and development. Considering the habitus as central to consulting projects is human since it enables consultants (and consultees) to identify the responsibility for organizational problems (and other phenomena) not only at the level of the individual but also at the level of the organization and the environment outside the organization.
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Baruch Shimoni is a professor of sociology and organization development at Bar-Ilan University Israel. He has a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent a year (1999-2000) at Sloan School of Management at MIT. In the 2003-2005, he had a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. In the course of the last 25 years, he has developed a professional career that integrates academic research with practical consulting to organizations. His challenge has been to both enhance his practical engagement with the most current research and theoretical insights and to use this practical engagement for the development of theory in the OD field. In addition to research and teaching, he founded and now serves as the academic head of the M.A. program in Organization Development and consults with organizations outside the university. In his most recent research project, Professor Shimoni uses the concept of habitus to theoretically and practically understand and cope with processes of change and development. Specifically, he links the Bourdieuan concept of habitus to the field of OD and in so doing provides an alternative way to incorporate the individual and the social in OD.
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
The book's argument
A first glance on the concept of habitus
The book's goals
The habitus-oriented OD (HOOD) as a helping profession
HOOD's dual perspective
Wedding of Organization Development (OD) and Critical Management Studies (CMS)
Who are the readers of the book?
What is not in the book?
A few words about methodology
The book's chapters
Chapter 2 A short Overview of the OD Field
1940s-1950s: Kurt Lewin and OD's ideological, theoretical and practical foundations
1960s: The psychologists' era and the individualistic orientation
1970s-1980s: The structural orientation and the consultants' era
1990s-2000s: The scholar-practitioners' era and the postmodern constructionist orientation
HOOD vs. Appreciative Inquiry and Dialogic OD
Chapter 3 Taking Bourdieu to Practice: Toward a Habitus-Oriented OD (HOOD)
Agent Structure theories and the need for the concept of habitus
Habitus as a site in which structure and practice meet
Notes on the epistemological roots of Bourdieu's theory of action
The self as a source of thinking and behavior
The habitus as a source of thinking and behavior
The hysteresis effect
Capital and position
Field
Strategies and the field's doxa
Symbolic violence
Social equilibrium and relational theory of practice
Chapter 4 Organization Development and Society
Individualism, blame and control
Managerialism
OD's humanistic values
OD's Managerialist perspective
Back to OD's big dilemma: Moral and effective consultancy
OD as a bridge between organizations and society
Macro emancipation
Micro emancipation
Chapter 5 HOOD and Resistance to Change (RTC)
The chapter's argument and goal
RTC and the individual
RTC and social context
RTC and social construction
Case study: Kimono
RTC and HOOD
Chapter 6 HOOD in Action
The chapter's argument and goal
Case study: the surgery department
HOOD: problem solving and change
Chapter 7 HOOD's Objectives in OD Change Processes
Habitus and social continuity
Habitus and social change
HOOD's objectives
HOOD in OD practices
Chapter 8 Concluding discussion
Overcoming the personal-social dichotomy
Moral and effective consulting
Criticizing managerialism is not anti-manager
HOOD as a bridge between organizations and society
Empowerment, emancipations and social structure
The skills required to operate in accordance with HOOD
Chapter 9 Summary and future research
Why habitus-oriented OD and not self-oriented OD?
Why habitus-oriented OD and not culture-oriented OD?
Criticism and the duty to offer an alternative practical approach
HOOD in other social fields
Future research
Author Biography
Index
