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Action research in organisations /

Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. This text demonstrates how it can be utilised to promote management and organisational improvement.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNiff, Jean
Otros Autores: Whitehead, Jack
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Colección:Routledge studies in human resource development.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. What is the nature of organisational knowledge? 1. Learning organisations and the responsibility of managers
  • Learning about learning / Jimmy Ryan. 2. Learning organisations as good societies
  • Journeyman / Seamus Lillis. 3. Action research, power and control
  • Collaboration for co-liberation: a story of intentional intervention / Pip Bruce Ferguson
  • pt. II. How is organisational knowledge acquired? 4. Doing research. 5. Empirical research
  • Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities / Paul Murphy. 6. Interpretive research
  • Understanding my work as a group leader in employment counselling / Breda Long. 7. Critical theoretic research
  • Courage to risk, courage to be free / Eileen Ross. 8. Action research
  • pt. III. How is organisational knowledge put to use? 9. Action research in organisations. 10. New theories of organisation
  • pt. IV. What are the implications of living theories of organisation for social living? 11. What should be the focus of management education? Action research and the production of working knowledge / John Garrick. Dialogue, learning and management education / Carl Rhodes. Enquiry in action in business education? / John H.M. Ellis and Julia A. Kiely. What should be the focus of management education? / Liam Nagle. What should be the focus of management education? / Chris James. 12. My epistemology of practice of the superintendency / Jacqueline Delong. 13. How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senge's 'learning organisation' / Carmel Lillis
  • Epilogue: reconciliations.