Research and practice have shown that Appreciative Inquiry (AI)—a strengths-based, dialogic intervention—provides organizations a valuable methodology to advance organizational change initiatives. This dissertation explores the role that Appreciative Inquiry plays in helping to create greater work meaningfulness within an organizational context. The study is a mixed-methods comparative case study across four organizations where AI Summit interventions were deployed, a fifth comparative organization utilizing lean thinking methodology, and a sixth quasi-control organization without formal intervention. You can read this dissertation here:

Cultivating Work Meaningfulness with Appreciative Inquiry