Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization is the essential resource for any researcher embarking on an action research project in their own organization, and all students of organization studies, education, health studies and community studies. In this brand new edition of the popular work, Coghlan and Brannick provide an easy-to-follow, hands-on guide to every aspect of conductingan action research project in your own organization. Revised and updated, this 3rd edition contains: An expanded discussion on politics and ethics of insider action research An expanded chapter on writing an action research dissertation More case examples and reflective exercises taken from a wide variety of organizational settings Doing Action Research is the ideal book for doctoral, MA or MBA students seeking a research topic that is based on leading change in their own organization and is essential reading for practitioner researchers and established academics in the fields of organization development and action research. INDICE: About The Authors / Acknowledgements / Preface / PART 1 FOUNDATIONS / Introducing Action Research: A Brief Introduction To Action Research ThreeAudiences//Voices//Practices Enacting Action Research Cycles The Action Research Cycles Pre-Step: Context And Purpose Main Steps Meta Learning Quality And Rigour In Action Research Conclusions Exercise 1.1: Enacting The Action Research Cycles / Learning In Action: Knowing And Learning General Empirical Method Authenticity Reflection Developing Reflective Skills Through Journaling SecondPerson Skills Conclusions Exercise 2.1 First Person Learning In Action Exercise 2.2 Keeping A Journal Exercise 2.3 Developing Inquiry Skills / Understanding Action Research: Action Research As Practical Knowing Foundations Of Action Research Research Paradigms And Action Research Experiential Paradigms Of Action Research Conclusions / PART II IMPLEMENTATION / Framing And Selecting Your Project: Framing The Action Research Project Selecting The Research Project Writing An Insider Action Research Proposal Developing The Action Research Conclusions Exercise 4.1 Questions For Framing And Selecting Exercise 4.2 Writing AThesis Proposal / Designing And Implementing Your Action Research Project: The Process Of Planned Change Planned Change Through Action Research Review And Learning Learning By Design Data Generation As Intervention The Role Of Technology How Do You Know When To Stop? Conclusions Exercise 5.1 The Process Of Implementation Exercise 5. 2 Reflection For Praxis / Interlevel Dynamics In Action Research: Interlevel Dynamics Of Change Interlevel Dynamics Of Strategy Levels Of Analysis In Action Research Conclusions Exercise 6.1 Applying InterlevelDynamics Exercise 6.2 The Learning Window / Using Frameworks To Study Organizations In Action: Organizational Diagnosis Systems Thinking And Practice Systems Thinking And Action Research Change And Learning Conclusions Exercise 7.1 Diagnosing Your Organization Exercise 7.2 Using Systems Thinking / PART III ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN RESEARCHING YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION / Researching Your OwnOrganization: The Focus Of Researcher And System Quadrant 1 Quadrant 2 Quadrant 3 Quadrant 4 Action Research At Home Conclusions Exercise 8.1 Assessing Your Research Focus / Preunderstanding, Role Duality And Access: PreunderstandingRole Duality: Organizational And Researcher Roles Access Conclusions Exercise9.1 Assessing Your Preunderstanding / Managing Organizational Politics And Ethics: The Politics Of Researching Your Own Organization Managing Political Relationships Ethics Insider Action Research And Ethics Integrating Roles, Politics And Ethics Integrative Case Conclusion Exercise 10.1 Assessing Politics AndEthics Exercise 10.2 Force Field Analysis / Writing Your Insider Action Research Dissertation: An Action Research Dissertation Constructing And Writing A Dissertation Dissemination Publishing Conclusions / In Conclusion / References / Name Index / Subject Index
- ISBN: 978-1-84860-216-8
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
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- Idioma: Inglés