Transformative Organizational Health: Nurturing Enhancive and Tropophilic Non-Dominant Hierarchies

Introduction

In the ever-evolving landscape of organizational development, the Search Conference and Participative Design Workshop methodologies, pioneered by Fred and Merrelyn Emery, offer transformative tools for assessing and enhancing organizational health. This article delves into the significance of these methodologies, emphasizing the pivotal role they play in reshaping traditional, restrictive, and tropophobic dominant hierarchies into enhancive and tropophilic non-dominant hierarchies. This transformation is key to cultivating an organizational environment that goes beyond goal-seeking behavior by encouraging ideal-seeking behavior -which is the basis of sustainability-, and by aligning with the optimal satisfaction of six psychological criteria for efficient and fulfilling work.

The Six Criteria for Efficient and Fulfilling Work

The first three criteria can go from -5 (too little) to +5 (too much); 0 being the optimal level. The las three criteria go from 0 to 10 (the higher the better).

1. Responsibility and Freedom in Decision-Making: Initiating the journey toward organizational health involves a paradigm shift from rigid, top-down decision-making…