The Fourth Edition of this best-selling book is packed full of practical, expert advice on how to navigate the murky waters of ethics, politics and management in your own organization. Multidisciplinary in its approach to action research, the book sets out a step-by-step template for researchers to follow and adapt.
Coghlan and Brannick:
Introduce and contextualize action research as a method Provide guidance on how to design and implement your action research project Explore interlevel dynamics Discuss role duality and access Suggest effective ways to analyze your data Provide helpful tips on how to disseminate your findings.
The book and supporting companion website are the ideal resource for students, researchers and practitioners hoping to generate real change through their action research project and will be particularly relevant to those studying Business and Management, Nursing and Health, Education and Sociology.
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Packed full of practical, expert advice on how to navigate the murky waters of ethics, politics and management in your own organization, and multidisciplinary in its approach to action research, this book sets out a step-by-step template for researchers to follow and adapt.
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PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Introducing Action Research
Inquiring in your own organization
A brief introduction to action research
Three audiences, voices or 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
Recommended reading
Exercise 1.1: Enacting the action research cycles
Knowing in Action
Knowing and learning
General empirical method
Authenticity
Action science and collaborative developmental inquiry as first-person practice
Second-person skills
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 2.1 First-person knowing in action
Exercise 2.2 Keeping a journal
Exercise 2.3 Developing inquiry skills
Understanding Action Research
Action Research as practical knowing
The foundations of action research
The philosophy of action research
Modalities of action research
Organization development through action research
Conclusions
Recommended reading
PART TWO: IMPLEMENTATION
Constructing and Selecting Your Insider Project
Constructing the action research project
Selecting the research project
Writing an insider action research proposal
Developing the action research
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 4.1 Questions for constructing and selecting
Exercise 4.2 Writing a thesis proposal
Designing and Implementing Your Action Research Project
The process of planned change
Planned change through action research
Learning mechanisms
Data generation as intervention
The role of technology
How do you know when to stop?
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 5.1 The process of implementation
Exercise 5. 2 Reflection for praxis
Interlevel Dynamics in Insider Action Research
Interlevel dynamics of change
Interlevel dynamics of strategy
Levels of analysis in action research
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 6.1 Applying interlevel dynamics
Exercise 6.2 Change issues
Exercise 6.3 The learning window
Using Frameworks to Study Organizations in Action
Organizational diagnosis
Systems thinking and practice
Change and learning
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 7.1 Understanding Your Organization
Exercise 7.2 Using Systems Thinking
PART THREE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN RESEARCHING YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION
Researching Your Own Organization
Focus of the researcher and system
Quadrant 1
Quadrant 2
Quadrant 3
Quadrant 4
Action Research at Home
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 8.1 Assessing your research focus
Preunderstanding, Role Duality and Access
Preunderstanding
Role duality: Organizational and researcher roles
Access
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 9.1 Assessing Your Preunderstanding
Managing Ethics and Organizational Politics
Ethics
Politics
Integrating roles, politics and ethics
Conclusions
Recommended reading
Exercise 10.1 Assessing ethics and politics
Exercise 10.2 Force field analysis
Writing up Your Insider Action Research Work
An action research dissertation
Constructing and writing your dissertation
Dissemination
Publishing
Conclusions
Recommended reading
In Conclusion
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A comprehensive, accessible and informative text, this is ideal for any undergraduate or postgraduate research student - it clearly guides the reader through theory, implementation & the operational challenges of undertaking action research within your own organisation -- David Gaylard, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Chichester University'This fourth edition of Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization ismuch more than a research methodology textbook. It is a hybrid, combining theory with a practitioner's reference, to provide a window into understanding the complexity, challenges and rewards of insider action research (AR)....The book speaks to researchers, post-graduate students, faculty and experienced practitioners because it provides a sustained and penetrating commentary on many of the prevailing phenomena and theories in the field of action learning and action science.' -- Anne Graham Cagney * Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015 *The edition is an extremely valuable, authoritative and unique survey guide to insider action research. We could not have implemented our breakthrough curriculum in action research without the text. -- Benito L. Teehankee
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781446272572
Publisert
20141200
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
05, UP
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232