The Dialogic Organization Development Approach to Transformation and Change
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Simply having “good dialogues” is not enough to create change. Hence, dialogic organization development (OD) approaches can help leaders and organizations meet adaptive challenges and create transformational change. This chapter identifies eight key premises of a dialogic OD mindset and contrasts these with a diagnostic OD mindset. The key premises include: reality and relationships are socially constructed; organizations are meaning-making systems; and language, broadly defined, matters. The chapter also identifies the three core change processes that, whether practitioners are aware of it or not, are the source of change in dialogic OD efforts. These change processes are: transformational process 1-emergence; transformational process 2-narrative; and transformational process 3-generativity.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it