Participative Organization Diagnosis and Intervention Strategies: Developing Emergent Pragmatic Theories of Change

A participative process for managers and consultants to build organization diagnostic and improvement models, called developing Emergent Pragmatic Theories of change, enables individuals to explicate their personal implicit models, and groups to combine personal models into shared group models which can be modified by exposure to relevant theory and research findings. This approach has been applied at General Motors and in training individuals.