Counseling organizations remotely: A qualitative inductive research on the adjustment process.

This study aimed to investigate how OD consultants adjusted their labor activity from a predominantly face-to-face to a solely technology-mediated setting. We adopted a bottom-up research approach to inductive concept development, following Gioia and colleagues’ (2013) methodology to study the adaptation process of 10 external and internal OD consultants. The findings indicate a parallel to Lewin’s (1951) famous three-phase model of change. We suggest that our emergent framework can be well applied by other occupational fields (e.g., education sector, therapy, consultancies) in a transition process to a virtual setting. To facilitate the transition in other occupational fields we present a guiding framework. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research