Organization Development and Society

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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