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How Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan Led a Change Process That Started
In 1956, Akhtar Khan began a project in rural East Pakistan that inspired new approaches to community and organization development. A quarter century later, he replicated the developmental process in impoverished neighborhoods of Karachi. The techniques of shared decision making, building cooperativ...
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2014
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| 100 | |a Boyatzis, Richard E | ||
| 245 | |a How Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan Led a Change Process That Started |c Boyatzis, Richard E. | ||
| 260 | |c 2014 | ||
| 300 | |a 284 - 306 | ||
| 520 | |a In 1956, Akhtar Khan began a project in rural East Pakistan that inspired new approaches to community and organization development. A quarter century later, he replicated the developmental process in impoverished neighborhoods of Karachi. The techniques of shared decision making, building cooperatives, training the master trainers, and encouraging self-sufficiency were pivotal to the approach. The effect transformed the two communities and helped inspire microfinance. Using the lens of intentional change theory in a post hoc analysis, we explain why this approach worked. The article allows us to honor a social innovator while affirming our commitment to practices like participation to create and reinforce a shared vision, creating new resonant relationships, building a multilevel intervention with distributed leadership, inclusiveness in training for empowerment, and continuous attention to cycling through the process iteratively. These are offered as insights in the design of organization and community development efforts. | ||
| 650 | |a Shared Vision | ||
| 650 | |a Intentional Change | ||
| 650 | |a Community Development | ||
| 773 | |a Journal of Applied Behavioral Science |d September | ||
| 999 | |c 42153 |d 42153 | ||