Organization and Education Development

<p><em>Organization and Education Development</em> combines reflective thinking and practice, action research living theory, and organization development to explore the self-discovery of meaning and purpose. It charts a journey undertaken by the author in pursuit of professional development through self-awareness and self-change as a fully integrated person and a better professor. </p><p>This book is about an individual's integrative journey of self-discovery. The author’s narrative includes values and organizational development concepts and theories shared with fellow travelers, including supervisors, friends, and students. He shares invaluable insights and examples with the reader, using a model of a six-spoke wheel of final discovery and the MICAI intersection model. These integrative guides provide examples on how to search for what is best in everyday life and what gives us true meaning, encouraging personal reflection and ways of nurturing appreciation for our own lives. </p><p>This multidisciplinary book combines western and eastern models and philosophies and draws from organization development, positive psychology, and education development. It will be ideal reading for students, researchers, and academics in the fields of organizational development, organizational psychology, social psychology, and education. It will appeal to any reader interested in learning about self-development. </p><p>The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.</p> <p>Foreword</p><p>Preface</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>List of figures </p><p>List of tables</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>About the author</p><p>List of Abbreviations</p><p>1 Introduction: why the journey, the itinerary, and the fellow travelers?</p><p>It is never too late to embark on a journey to learn about oneself</p><p>Two salient events in my life and their effects on me</p><p>Options in mapping out my journey</p><p>What is the "best travel agenda"?</p><p>Core values for my research journey of discovery</p><p>What I need to know and discover on my journey: objectives and questions </p><p>My fellow travelers</p><p>2 Essential items packed for the journey: OD Theories and concepts <br>with accompanying studies and literature</p><p>Introduction</p><p>My travel bag </p><p>Reflective practice</p><p>Appreciative inquiry and appreciative living </p><p>Positive organization scholarship </p><p>Charlotte Shelton’s seven quantum skills</p><p>Positive psychology, and flow and creativity</p><p>Action research living theory</p><p>Eastern perspectives: ikigai, yoga, meditation, and tai chi</p><p>Mindfulness</p><p>Self-awareness</p><p>Self: the human being is part of the whole, called the universe</p><p>Know yourself</p><p>3 All Aboard: my journey travelers who helped me in navigating my route</p><p>My ticket for the journey: the research paradigm</p><p>Three instruments in my research paradigm</p><p>Respondents for the surveys and interviews</p><p>Data collection</p><p>Journaling</p><p>Surveys and interviews</p><p>Feedback questions </p><p>4 The journey: what I learned from my initial fellow travelers and myself in relation to the values of integrity, professionalism, and spirituality</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Research question 1: what are the consistent ways in which practicing my three values of <br>integrity, professionalism, and spirituality make me a fully integrated person?</p><p><i>Summary </i></p><p>Impact of independent readership on my journal entries</p><p>Research question 2: through what behavioral lenses do my friends and students <br>perceive me practicing the three values?</p><p>Surveys</p><p>Interviews</p><p>Summary </p><p>5 The journey continues: what I learned from my dditional Dellow Travelers and <br>Myself on my top three discoveries and on my final model</p><p>Introduction </p><p>Research question 3: what are the top three discoveries I gained from my practice of the <br>three values?</p><p><i>Summary</i></p><p>Research question 4: what model can I craft toward becoming (a) a fully integrated <br>person and (b) a better professor?</p><p><i>Summary</i></p><p>Four illustrative vignettes</p><p><i>Vignette one (on professionalism)</i></p><p>Brief episode</p><p>Extrapolation</p><p><i>Vignette two (on integrity)</i></p><p>Brief episode</p><p>Extrapolation</p><p><i>Vignette three (on spirituality)</i></p><p>Brief episode</p><p>Extrapolation</p><p><i>Vignette four (on all three values of integrity, professionalism, and spirituality)</i></p><p>Brief episode</p><p>Extrapolation</p><p>6 Completing the journey: the Final OD model, the lessons learned, the MICAI <br>intersection model, summaries of reflective practices, and does the journey really end? </p><p>A fulfilling journey and the six-spoked wheel model </p><p>General conclusions</p><p>Specific conclusions</p><p>Core values</p><p>A clear process for the route taken </p><p>The road is never neatly defined </p><p>A three-legged stool of values </p><p>There is always room for improvement in teaching and in living life </p><p>I am part of the cosmos and I contribute to the dynamic whole </p><p>The MICAI intersection model</p><p>Instances in applying the MICAI intersection model</p><p>Summaries of reflective practices for a reader to use</p><p><i>Scenario 1</i></p><p>Scenario 2</p><p>Several specific examples of simple daily reflective practices </p><p><i>Example 1: morning — the sun rises, we rise, we awaken</i></p><p>Example 2: a flock of birds flying in the sky</p><p>Example 3: eating slowly and tasting the gently-stirred oatmeal porridge</p><p>you cooked</p><p>A poem to sum up my journey and salient pointers I learned</p><p>Concluding notes and recommendations</p><p>Key ingredients in embarking on a journey </p><p>Incorporation of other concepts and theories </p><p>Always revisit your journey</p><p>7 Postscript from my journey: Covid-19, the new normal, and ways of rediscovering o<b>neself</b></p><p>Introduction</p><p>My final model in relation to Covid-19</p><p>Impact of Covid-19 on OD models and new values in OD</p><p>Covid-19 as a crisis of opportunity</p><p>Mental maps: conventional and new normal </p><p>Unleashing the best in us</p><p><i>Shakespeare and the black plague: creativity sparked in dramatic plays</i></p><p>Chekhov in isolation: creativity released in the wilderness </p><p>Wordsworth as a solitary person: creativity unlocked through poetry</p><p>The miracle of Robben Island: creativity uncaged through imprisonment </p><p>and confinement</p><p>An exercise in reinterpreting lines from <i>As You Like It,</i> 1599: as rewritten in 2020, the <br>new normal</p><p>Epilogue</p><p>Appendix 1: selected journal entries as samples showing self-reflection</p><p>Appendix 2: selections from the data collection table reporting interviews with the </p><p>respondents</p><p>Glossary</p><p>Index</p>