Action Research in OrganisationsRoutledge, 4 de jan. de 2002 - 348 páginas The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success. So how can managers develop the appropriate knowledge base to make their organisations grow? The answer lies in action research. Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. However, there are very few texts that demonstrate how this can be utilised to promote management and organisational improvement or that emphasise the reflective nature of improving professionalism. Action Research in Organisations fills this gap. Aimed at both practising managers and university students alike, key features of this title include: * the location of management and organisational theory within a framework * examination of the principles and practice of action research * real-world examples and case studies of people attempting to improve their own situations through action research. |
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... teacher and school counsellor. She is currently Professor and Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development, University of Alberta. She writes extensively in the fields of narrative enquiry and teacher ...
... teacher and school counsellor. She is currently Professor and Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development, University of Alberta. She writes extensively in the fields of narrative enquiry and teacher ...
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... teaching assistantship and works part-time with 'Urban' Nations and Metis people developing skills to set up an Art ... Teacher Education and Development, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She is currently engaged in post-doctoral ...
... teaching assistantship and works part-time with 'Urban' Nations and Metis people developing skills to set up an Art ... Teacher Education and Development, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She is currently engaged in post-doctoral ...
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... teacher, living with his wife Una in Kells, Republic of Ireland. He is currently studying at University College, Dublin, for his Masters Degree in Education. Paul Murphy, a Capuchin friar, is working in the Strategic Response Group ...
... teacher, living with his wife Una in Kells, Republic of Ireland. He is currently studying at University College, Dublin, for his Masters Degree in Education. Paul Murphy, a Capuchin friar, is working in the Strategic Response Group ...
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... teachers on those courses. Some will, I hope, relate to my story of how I have come to reconceptualise organisation study in terms of my own experience as I addressed the question, 'How do I improve my work?' (Whitehead, 1 989). This ...
... teachers on those courses. Some will, I hope, relate to my story of how I have come to reconceptualise organisation study in terms of my own experience as I addressed the question, 'How do I improve my work?' (Whitehead, 1 989). This ...
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New theories of discourse | 9 |
Management learning | 16 |
Why am I writing this book and why are you reading it? | 22 |
PARTI | 33 |
Learning about learning | 60 |
Learning organisations as good societies | 67 |
Journeyman | 89 |
Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities | 154 |
Interpretive research | 160 |
Understanding my work as a group leader in employment | 173 |
Courage to risk courage to be free | 192 |
PART III | 219 |
PARTIV | 257 |
My epistemology of practice of the superintendency | 274 |
How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senges | 285 |
Action research power and control | 95 |
a story of intentional | 115 |
PART II | 125 |
Empirical research | 142 |
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