Editorial

• Published in: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome 2016-01, Vol.3 (1)
• Main Author: Maria Socorro C L Fernando
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Behavior; Citizenship; Globalization; Leadership; Race relations; Tourism
• ISSN: 2408-2058

Editorial Welcome to our first issue for 2016. In this issue, we span the globe with articles that showcase the efforts of various researchers on the topics of change and organization development. Dudley Lynch wrote an article “Bullet Brain, Liquid Soul: A New Metaphor and a Strategy for Empowering Your Humanity and Improving Your Results” which explains the basis for, and provides a general overview of, what has been styled “the dolphin mindset” in formal OD, HRD, creativity research and training circles as well as general business media outlets. The article “Organization Citizenship Behaviour Path Analysis: Justice, Trust, Satisfaction and Commitment” by Kittiwat Watcharachatchawan and Peter Steane, PhD provides an understanding of the relationship between these variables and how this relationship contributes to change in organization citizenship behavior . It also discusses its usefulness as a tool for organization development and business practitioners in understanding the change in behaviour in organization development. The article “Cultural Intelligence of SME’s Leaders involved in Internationalization Processes” by Claus Schreier, Prof. Dr. rer. pol. and Luca Macchi. The article clarifies SME decision makers’ cultural intelligence profile and indicates that people who are involved in internationalization decisions demonstrate a significantly higher level of cultural intelligence. The article by Arlene Scott, Ph. D on “Using Large-Scale Change Methods to Accelerate Health Improvements in the United Kingdom” describes how the Academy for Large-Scale Change (ALSC) offered a fresh approach to large-scale change methods that enabled leaders to make rapid progress in the skills they need to achieve health improvements and to successfully implement large-scale change (LSC) projects. Somyot Kaenhin and Adarsh Batra, Ph.D. contributes the article “An Exploratory Study on Tourism Authority of Thailand Organizational Image Attributes”. The article identified the attributes that construct the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s (TAT) organizational image and explored the current positioning of each attribute. The result the showed all attributes have a significant difference and implies that TAT has room for improvement its performance in all attributes. Three articles on leadership and change at the business, educational, societal levels are featured: “Shifting From Transactional Leadership (T2) to Transformational Leadership (T3) Behavior with a Full Range Leader