FEEDBACK FROM THE POSITIVE QUESTION – THE INTEGRATION OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY WITH SURVEY FEEDBACK: FROM CORPORATE TO GLOBAL CULTURES

Abstract

This chapter proposes a synergy and integration between OD’s long tradition of “survey guided development” and the rapidly emerging new directions offered by Appreciative Inquiry. Both Appreciative Inquiry and the survey-guided development approaches have a common shared commitment to the Lewinian call to Action Research. The chapter traces the movement from Action Research to “survey guided development,” and then to the emergence of Appreciative inquiry. Several illustrations of Appreciative Inquiry combined with Survey Guided Organization Development are presented for U.S. and international applications. Findings illustrated in the chapter present the possibility of a third new and powerful perspective on the driving forces and dynamics of change. In addition, the international illustrations raise the question of and strengthen the argument for a common universal human experience.

Citation

Sorensen, P.F. and Yaeger, T.F. (2004), "FEEDBACK FROM THE POSITIVE QUESTION – THE INTEGRATION OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY WITH SURVEY FEEDBACK: FROM CORPORATE TO GLOBAL CULTURES", Cooperrider, D.L. and Avital, M. (Ed.) Constructive Discourse and Human Organization (Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 263-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1475-9152(04)01012-9