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Reflexive
Inquiry: A Framework for Consultancy Practice.
Christine
Oliver, 2005
Karnac,
London.
"Reflexive Inquiry" offers a way for
us, as organisational members and consultants, to handle the
tensions of a life immersed in organisational relations, structures,
rules, policies, and procedures. This book provides us with an
array of practices we might use with client systems seeking development
while avoiding the urge to prescribe a new method for consultancy.
Oliver has struck a chord identifying reflexive inquiry as the
centerpiece of our work. When we invite our clients (as well
as ourselves) into the sort of relational examination that reflexive
inquiry spawns, we give full attention to the communication practices
that create our identities, our organizations, and our lives.
I am sure this volume will be rich with resources for us all.
Sheila McNamee, Professor of Communication,
University of New Hampshire, USA |
| All of us who are
working with systemic, communication, and constructionist
ideas will welcome the publication of this book. My term-of-choice
for the framework presented here is "maturity." It
brings together several strands of work (appreciative inquiry,
systemic practice, CMM), productively extending them in a
practice centered on reflexivity. Perhaps
the most impressive aspect of this book is that it both extends
the work of the community of practice in which it is located
and is accessible to those not already involved in it. Readers
new to this community of practice will find a high ratio of
new information and ideas, but the information is presented
in an engaging manner with sufficient illustrations from actual
cases to enable comprehension and adoption of new ways of working.
W. Barnett Pearce. Professor,
Human and Organization Development Program, Fielding Graduate
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