Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Process Consultation or Integrated Practice in Architecture

Process Consultation: Lessons for Managers and Consultants, Volume II

Author: Edgar H Schein

This book, intended for experienced consultants and managers, reaffirms the concept of process consultation as a viable model of how to work with human systems. Included are such topics as cultural rules of interaction; initiating and managing change; intervention strategy; tactics and style; and emerging issues in process consultation. Volume II is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in the management of human processes in organization.



Table of Contents:

I. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW.

1. Managers and Consultants as Helpers.
2. What Is Process Consultation?
3. What Is “Process”?

II. SIMPLIFYING MODELS OF HUMAN PROCESSES.

4. Intrapsychic Processes-ORJI.
5. Cultural Rules of Interaction.
6. Initiating and Managing Change.

III. THE CONSULTING PROCESS IN ACTION.

7. Who Is the Client?
8. Intervention Strategy.
9. Intervention Tactics and Style.
10. Toward a Typology of Intervention.
11. Emerging Issues in Process Consultation.

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Integrated Practice in Architecture: Mastering Design-Build, Fast-Track, and Building Information Modeling

Author: George Elvin

Get the only comprehensive book about integrated practice in architecture, which is the collaborative design, construction and life-cycle management of buildings. Chapters are clearly organized around critical issues in integrated architectural practice, including teambuilding, project planning, communication, risk management, and implementation.



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