ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I present HOOD’s (habitus-oriented OD) theoretical assumptions derived from Bourdieu’s theory of action (1977, 1989, 1990). The chapter does not offer a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu’s work. For good and updated introductions in management and organization studies, see Mustafa Emirbayer and Victoria Johnson (2008); Mustafa Özbilgin, Abu Tatli, and Mary Queen (2005); and Abu Tatli, Mustafa Özbilgin, and Mine Karatas-Ozkan (2015). What the chapter does offer is an implementation of Bourdieu’s main concepts (habitus, capital, field, doxa, strategies and symbolic violence) in a case study from my consulting experience. I show how habitus-oriented consulting allowed me to conduct a change process that assumes that personal problematic behavior is a social phenomenon influenced by an organization’s social structure and produced mainly by those in powerful positions who invited me to help them ‘fix’ this specific problematic behavior.
