Book description
Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system
together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda
varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work,
to discussion of troubling issues and problems.
The Handbook of Large Group Methods
takes the next step in demonstrating through a series of cases how
Large Group Methods are currently being used to address
twenty-first-century challenges in organizations and communities today,
including:
- Working with widely dispersed organizations, and the problem of
involvement and participation
- Working with organizations facing a serious business crisis
- Working with organizations in polarized and politicized environments
- Working in community settings with diverse interest groups
- Working at the global level and adapting these methods for
cross-cultural use
- Embedding and sustaining new patterns of working together in
organizations and communities
Barbara Benedict Bunker
is emeritus professor of psychology at the State University of New York
at Buffalo. She has taught in executive development programs at
Columbia, Pepperdine, and the Harvard University School of Education and
has held Fulbright Lectureships in the business schools of Keio
University and Kobe University in Japan.
Billie T. Alban is president of Alban and Williams, Ltd., and
an internationally known management consultant whose clients include
British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Exxon, and Kraft/General
Foods. She teaches in executive development programs at Columbia, the
University of California, Los Angeles, and Pepperdine and has served
on the board of the Organization Development Network.
Bunker and
Alban are coauthors of Large Group Interventions from
Jossey-Bass.
