Social space as a generative image for dialogic organization development

Victor J. Friedman; Israel Sykes; Noam Lapidot-Lefler; Noha Haj

doi:10.1108/S0897-301620160000024005

Social space as a generative image for dialogic organization development

Victor J. Friedman, Israel Sykes, Noam Lapidot-Lefler, Noha Haj

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Abstract

Social space, the central construct in field theory, offers dialogic organization development a generative image similar to open systems for diagnostic OD. Social space imagery enables people to think, feel, and act in ways that exercise greater choice over the realities they construct and that construct them. This process is illustrated through a "transitional space" that enabled people with severe disabilities to overcome stigma and isolation. Social spatial imagery moves dialogic OD away from systems imagery and language, addresses ambivalence about self and mind, clarifies the meaning of reality, and reconnects it to its Lewinian roots.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	113-144
Number of pages	32
Journal	Research in Organizational Change and Development
Volume	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-301620160000024005
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Dialogic organization development
Field theory
Social space
Transitional space

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Business and International Management
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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