APPLICATION PAPERS/BOOKS
PRIME
MOVERS:
Define Your Business or Have Someone Define it Against
You
Rafael
Ramirez, Johan Wallin 2000
In this book, available through Amazon by clicking on the title above, Rafael and Johan use AIC to explain, in Chapter 7, the new Actor-centered market-making strategies of 'Prime Movers" such as VISA, Nokia, and the Swedish Packaging Company Akerlund and Rausing,
Rafael and Johan take the same stance to business as AIC does to the organizing process at any level. We must move our level of attention from control-centered strategies to influence-centered strategies. When we do we will automatically invoke the appreciative-centered perspectives that are necessary for influence-centered organization.
"Offerings reverse the ground of attention to which strategists have given priority. Instead of actors, interactions should be considered as the focus. Instead of companies, it is relationships. Instead of positioning within a given context, it is the enlarging and redefining environments which can deliver more effective companies, helping their customers to become more effective creators, ultimately making up better value constellations."
The Role of ODII
and AIC
(Extracted from a case
was written by Ms. Brenda Furugganan and Prof. Mario Antonio G. Lopez),
This article tells the story of
Khun* Paiboon and his role in encouraging the application of AIC
as a transformational process at village level and ultimately up to the
level of the transformation
of the government itself.
Most significantly, it resulted in changes
to sections 45 to 47 of the 1997 Constitution under
which stated that the people had a right to organize themselves to conserve or
restore their
customs, local knowledge, arts or good culture of their community and of the
nation and participate
in the management, maintenance, preservation, and exploitation of natural
resources and the environment.
http://www.synergos.org/bridgingleadership/04/c_5_case_study_khun_paiboon_wattansiritham_thailand.pdf.
* Khun is a term of deep respect
Generating Shared Visions for Community Development
in Southeast Asia:
The AIC Process:
James McNeil, 1999
Center for International Education
djmacnei@educ.umass.edu
James' article tells the story of one of the most extensive applications of AIC. From training of thirty young people the process spread through much of Thailand till it was used in 1996 by the Government to form the five year national plan. It illustrates the self-organizing properties of the process and how the Thai's were able to make it their own, or as they would describe it AIC "Thai Style".
Health
Promotion for Thai Garment Factory workers
Researched
and written By
Phornthip Layanun
Due
to an increasing trend in non-communicable diseases (NCD) among people in
developing countries, health promotion has played an important role in NCD
prevention. Managerial improvement is one of the
areas
that need special consideration. Therefore, the main objective of the study was
to develop a
managerial
health promotion system in the
garment
industry located in Bangkok Metropolis.
The methodology of the study was an action research which was divided
into two main
phases,
including
a
baseline survey and health promotion activities among 30 textile businesses
(weaving
and garment manufacturers) in
terms of individual health, environmental health and health care systems.
It was found that workers had poor health knowledge and poor health promotion
behaviour which
could lead to an increase in personal illness and work absence.
The environmental aspects were not
supportive of
a
healthy atmosphere
because the
workplace had concentrated
only
on
mandatory services. Therefore,
a health promotion management system was developed using a system approach model
(a model focusing on the relationships within the five system component of
health promotion in the organization
and the environment interaction) with
full participation from all
levels of staff in the situation analysis, decision-making, planning,
implementing, evaluating and feedback.
The five components of health promotion system consist of management,
resources, economic support, organization structure, and service delivery. These
five components of the health promotion system were analyzed prior to
implementation. The
Appreciation Influence and Control Process (AIC) was selected as an intervention
to create overall participation.
It is suggested from the study that an effective health promotion
management system using AIC process is a tool of management in developing health
promotion in the workplace can be conducted with full participation of employees
according to the five component system of the health promotion in their working
environment. The designed comprehensive health promotion program (the
combination the Five strategies of Ottawa Charter, namely building healthy work
policies, creating supportive work environment, strengthening community action,
developing personal skill and reorienting occupational health as well as other
health services) was effective and satisfactory to the employees. However, the
success of the program greatly depends on the awareness, acceptance, and support
of top management level and the staff’s willingness to participate.
THE
NEW DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM
Organizing for Implementation
Turid Sato and William E. Smith 1993
In September 1993, ten countries
sent delegations representing their governments, nongovernmental organizations,
the private sector and academic communities to discuss implementing a new
development paradigm with representatives from development assistance agencies.
At the request of the project's sponsors - the governments of Japan and the
Netherlands and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - the project
organizer, Organizing for Development, an International Institute (ODII),
prepared a workshop report, on which this chapter is based . This chapter was
published in . Development : New Paradigms
and. Principles for the Twenty-First Century (Rethinking Bretton Woods , Vol 2)
by Jo Marie Griesgraber (Editor), Bernhard G. Gunter (Editor)
The book can be obtained from Amazon.com by clicking on
the title.
CASE
ON PARTICIPATION IN THAILAND
Lynne Taguchi
June 1996
Lynne gives a briefer summary of the Thai experience with AIC
WOMEN'S ORGANIZING ABILITIES:Mario and Laurel carry out more classical research using AIC as a framework to understand male and female roles in matriarchal and patriarchal tribes in the two African countries.
PLANNING
FOR THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN COLOMBIA
William
E. Smith PhD
1985
This article tells the story of the first application of AIC. It appeared in modified form as Chapter 17 in Marvin R. Weisbord's Discovering Common Ground : How Future... " Berrett and Koehler 1992 . By clicking on the title above you can obtain a copy from Amazon.com.
EVOLUTION
OF CONTROL AND COORDINATION IN ' MNC
(Crises in Development)
W. E.
Smith and Remy Charmoz 1978
W. E. Smith identified three power relationships which characterized the growth pattern of Multinational Corporations. The study, "Evolution of Control and Coordination in' MNCs" was based on his experience of re-organizations while working the Pharmaceutical Industry. It was published in book by J. Galbraith and D. Nathanson Strategy Implementation the Role of Structure and Process1978.
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