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scholar-practitioner, Schein, process consultation, leadership

Abstract:

For fifty years Edgar H. Schein has creatively shaped and systematically shaped theory and practice in areas such as: OD, career dynamics, cultural dynamics of complex systems, leadership, process consultation and the clinical research paradigm. To celebrate his fifty-year contribution to the field, a special issue of the Journal of Behavioral Science is to be published in 2009. The purpose of this symposium is to celebrate and critically engage with Edgar Schein's contributions to organizational scholarship and practice, while advancing his thinking into new contexts while integrating recent developments in the themes, issues and problems that have preoccupied Edgar Schein in his fify years of scholarship. The challenge for us is to build on this scholar/practitioner legacy and engage in scientific research that is collaborative and actionable - while advancing the meaning of 'science' in the realm of human systems development and research