APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AND THE ELEVATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Diana Whitney

doi:10.1016/S1475-9152(04)01006-3

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Advances in Appreciative Inquiry

ISSN: 1475-9152
Series editor(s): Professor David Cooperrider, Professor Michel Avital

Subject Area: Organization Studies

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APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AND THE ELEVATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

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Title:	APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AND THE ELEVATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Author(s):	Diana Whitney
Volume:	1 Editor(s): David L. Cooperrider and Michel Avital ISBN: 978-0-76230-892-7 eISBN: 978-1-84950-159-0
Citation:	Diana Whitney (2004), APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AND THE ELEVATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS, in David L. Cooperrider and Michel Avital (ed.) Constructive Discourse and Human Organization (Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.125-145
DOI:	10.1016/S1475-9152(04)01006-3 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	This chapter creates a logic that links the transformation of organizational consciousness with the creation of a more life affirming global consciousness. In it the author examines the relationship between the practice of Appreciative Inquiry, the concept of organizational consciousness and the need for global transformation. She suggests that Appreciative Inquiry, with its life giving focus, is uniquely suited to simultaneously bring about change in organizations and society through the elevation and evolution of organizational consciousness. Recognizing the need for transformation on a global scale, she challenges the field of organization development to move beyond the metaphor of organization culture toward the metaphor of organizational consciousness. Cultures are defined and bounded by national and corporate borders. Consciousness is all pervasive. It knows not boundaries of organizations, countries nor continents. Appreciative Inquiry practices, that involve the whole system in valuing the best of what is, envisioning generative possibilities and creating life-sustaining organizations, hold great potential for the evolution of organizational consciousness.