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Gervase BusheProfessor of Leadership and Organization Development Burnaby Phone: 778-782-4104 Curriculum Vitae for Dr. Bushe BiographyDr. Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development, is an internationally recognized scholar in organizational development whose work is widely cited. His research examines organizational change, organizational learning, leadership and leadership development, teams and team building, change agents and change agentry. With an extensive background in designing transformational change processes, Gervase consults to major corporations such as Business Objects, Telus, General Motors, the Vancouver Island and Fraser Health Authorities, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and ACL Analytics. His leadership development programs are licensed for delivery around the world through Clear Learning Ltd. Gervase is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and The Organization Development Practitioner. Specialization and Research InterestsLeadership, organizational change and development, groups and teamwork, consulting and change agentry. Selected PublicationsBushe, G.R. (2012). Appreciative
inquiry: Theory and critique. In Boje, D., Burnes, B. & Hassard, J. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion
To Organizational Change (pp.
87-103). Oxford, UK: Routledge. Bushe, G.R. & Chu, A. (2011). Fluid
teams: Solutions to the problems of unstable team membership. Organizational Dynamics 40.3: 181-188. Bushe, G.R. (2010). Commentary on "Appreciative inquiry as a
shadow process". Journal of Management Inquiry 9.3: 234-237. Bushe,
G.R. & Marshak, R.J. (2009). Revisioning organization development: Diagnostic
and dialogic premises and patterns of practice. Journal of Applied Behavioral
Science 45.3: 348-368. (Winner of the Douglas McGregor Memorial
Award for best paper in JABS in 2009) Bushe,
G.R. (2009). Dialogic OD: Turning away from
diagnosis. In W.J. Rothwell, J.M. Stavros, R.L. Sullivan &
A. Sullivan (Eds.), Practicing organization development: A guide for Managing and Leading Change,
3rd Ed (pp. 617-623). San Francisco: Pfieffer-Wiley. Bushe, G.R. (2009). Clear leadership: Sustaining real
collaboration and partnership at work (2nd Edition). Mountain View,
CA: Davies-Black Publishers. Bushe, G.R. (2007). Appreciative Inquiry is not (just) about the
positive. Organization Development Practitioner 39.4: 30-35. Slated to be
reprinted in Appreciative Inquiry: Concepts and Experiences. Ahmedabad, India:
Academy of Human Resource Development, 2010, and the Oxford Leadership Journal,
September, 2010. Bushe, G.R. & Coetzer,
G.H. (2007). Group development and team
effectiveness: Using shared cognitions to measure the impact of group
development on task performance and group viability. Journal of Applied
Behavioral Science 43.2: 184-212. (Winner - Douglas McGregor Memorial Award) Bushe, G.R. (2006). Sensemaking and the problems of
learning from experience: Barriers and requirements for creating cultures of collaboration. In S. Shulman (Ed.),
Creating cultures of collaboration (pp.151-171). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Bushe, G.R. & Kassam,
A. (2005). When is appreciative inquiry
transformational? A case meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
41.2: 161-181. (Honorable Mention: Douglas
McGregor Memorial Award) Bushe, G.R. (2004). Managers want tribes not teams: An invitation to
rethink teambuilding. Organization Development Practitioner 36.1: 9-12. Digested for the
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