Rethinking Organizational Change The Role of Dialogue Dialectic and Polyphony in the Organization 1st edition by Muayyad Jabri ISBN 1317561972 9781317561972

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ISBN 10: 1317561972
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Author: Muayyad Jabri 

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of dialogue applied to the management of change. Muayyad Jabri offers an involved assessment of the differences between ‘dialogue’ and ‘dialectic’ and an intriguing invitation to rely on both for managing creative interventions into the change process. The book provides a surplus of new insights that will help to promote scholarly work in the area of managing change and to develop a more creative practice associated with the processes of managing change. The call for polyphony facilitates a crossover from sameness to diversity and from univocal to multivocal representations. In reading patterns of managing change, whether from within or across organizational borders, it is found that a vital part of the reading is, at present, ‘unreadable’ because we lack involved knowledge of how diversity and polyphony are interrelated. This book seeks to change this; based on a rendition of Mikhail Bakhtin’s anthropological concept of polyphony applied to organizational change. The reader is treated to a cutting-edge discussion of a variety of contemporary ontological and epistemological themes centered on process, dialectic, dialogue and social construction.

Rethinking Organizational Change The Role of Dialogue Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization 1st Table of contents:

1 Managing Change and the Role of Polyphony

The Nature of Change

Utterances

Bakhtin and Dostoevsky

The Call for Polyphony

Bakhtin’s Notion of Selfhood

Polyphony as Metaphor

Polyphony as a Social Construct

Polyphony versus Monologue

Bakhtin’s Notes on Polyphony

The Role of Conversations

Polyphony Versus Descartes

Structure and Process

References

2 The Role of Utterances in Communicating Change

Bakhtin’s Polyphonic Theory

Ferdinand de Saussure and the Notion of Langue

The Limits of Saussure’s Approach

Bakhtin and the Role of Parole

Social Construction of Change Achieved Through Parole

The ‘Word’ and Power

Language and Ideological Becoming

The Need for the ‘Other’

Ideological Becoming and Identity

The Utterances We Share

Consciousness in Process Terms

Dialectic and Antinomy

Models of Communicating Change

The Role of Responsive Utterances

Consensus: Monologic Versus Dialogic

Polyphonic Communication

Conclusion

References

3 The Role of Dialogue in Managing Change

Dialogue and the Socratic Mode

The Socratic Notion of Dialogue

Bakhtin’s Notion of the Socratic Method

Monologic Tendencies

Dialogic Space Achieved Through Utterances

Shifting Identities

Relational Selfhood

‘I-Thou’ and Bakhtin

Heteroglossia as a Facet of Polyphony

Types of Discourse

Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

Bakhtin’s Notion of Heteroglossia

Ideological Becoming

Ideological Becoming as a Struggle between the Individual and the Social

Embodying Utterances

Dialogue and Dialectic

Social Consciousness as a Property of Dialogue

Polyphony: A Sense of Truth

Conclusion

References

4 The Role of Dialectic in Managing Change

Defining Dialectic in Managing Change

Dialectic in Action

Dialectic: An Emphasis on the Logic of Symptoms and Causes

Manifestations of Dialectic

The Affinity between Dialectic and the Problem-Centric Mode

Bakhtin’s Stance on Dialectic

Contrasting the Two Modes

The New Way Ahead

Dialectic in Time

Dialectic and the Systems Viewpoint

Polyphony is Built on Antinomy

Antinomic and Non-Antinomic Utterances

More on Polyphony

Conclusion

References

5 Styles of Engagement: Dialogue with Dialectic

Defining the Act of Diagnosing Change

Two Broad Modes for Managing Change

Problem-Centric Mode

Life-Centric Mode

Appreciation

The Stand-Off (Impasse)

Plasticity: Bakhtin

Plasticity: Malabou

The Nature of Plasticity

Plasticity is About ‘Productive Imagination’

Flight Achieved Through Plasticity

Plasticity in Action

Examples of Plastic Change

Organizational Learning and Embodiment of the Change Effort

References

6 Polyphony and Organizational Learning

Utterances

Bakhtin’s Notion of Outsideness

Consciousness as a Property of the Social

Bakhtin’s Notion of the Surplus of Meaning

Double and Triple Loop Learning

Bateson Meets Bakhtin: Learning III and the Mutation of Utterances

Learning III Informed Through Utterances

Storytelling Change as a Source for Utterances Leading to Surplus

Conclusion

References

7 The Verdict: Embodying Change through Polyphony

Merleau-Ponty Meets Bakhtin

Embodiment as an Inhabitation

Phenomenal Body and Coping with Change

Embodying our Utterances

Organizational Change: Multiplicity and Tensions

Embodiment is About Energy

Embodiment and Sociality

Importance of Embodiment in Managing Change

Looking to the Future

References

About the Author

Index

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