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Doing action research in your own organization / David Coghlan & Teresa Brannick. English

By: Coghlan, David [author.].
Contributor(s): Brannick, Teresa [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Los Angeles [i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif.] : SAGE Publications, 2014Edition: 4th edition.Description: xxi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781446272565; 1446272567; 9781446272572 (pbk.); 1446272575 (pbk.).Subject(s): Action research | Organizational change | Organizational change | Action research | Aktionsforschung | Organisation | Aktionsforskning | SocietyDDC classification: 300.72
Contents:
PART 1 FOUNDATIONS -- 1 Introducting Action Research -- 2 Knowing in Action -- 3 Understanding Action Reserch -- PART II IMPLEMENTATION -- 4 Constructing and Selecting Your Insider Project -- 5 Designing and Implementing your Action Research Project -- 6 Interlevel Dynamics in Insider Action Research -- 7 Using Framework to Study Organizations in Action -- PART III ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN RESEARCHING YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION -- 8 Researching your Own Organization -- 9 Preunderstanding, Role Duality and Access -- 10 Managing Ethics and Organizational Politics -- 11 Writing up your Insider Action Research Work -- 12 In Conclusion.
Summary: This text provides a primer on action research, and how to use it to understand organizations. The author's unique resource addresses the potential pitfalls, the politics and ethics of researching your own organization.
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Previous edition: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and indexes.

PART 1 FOUNDATIONS -- 1 Introducting Action Research -- 2 Knowing in Action -- 3 Understanding Action Reserch -- PART II IMPLEMENTATION -- 4 Constructing and Selecting Your Insider Project -- 5 Designing and Implementing your Action Research Project -- 6 Interlevel Dynamics in Insider Action Research -- 7 Using Framework to Study Organizations in Action -- PART III ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN RESEARCHING YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION -- 8 Researching your Own Organization -- 9 Preunderstanding, Role Duality and Access -- 10 Managing Ethics and Organizational Politics -- 11 Writing up your Insider Action Research Work -- 12 In Conclusion.

This text provides a primer on action research, and how to use it to understand organizations. The author's unique resource addresses the potential pitfalls, the politics and ethics of researching your own organization.

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