Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization

by David Coghlan

• ISBN13: 9781848602151
• ISBN10: 1848602154
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-25
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This book 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, David Coghlan and Teresa Brannick provide an easy-to-follow, hands-on guide to every aspect of conducting an action research project in your own organization.Revised and updated, this Third Edition contains: An expanded discussion on politics and ethics of insider action research An expanded chapter on writing an action research dissertation and an action research report More case examples and reflective exercises taken from a wide variety of organizational settings 

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Foundations

Introducing Action Research

A Brief Introduction To Action Research

Three Audiences/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

Enacting The Action Research Cycles

Learning In Action

Knowing And Learning

General Empirical Method

Authenticity

Reflection

Developing Reflective Skills Through Journaling

Second Person Skills

Conclusions

First Person Learning In Action

Keeping A Journal

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

Implementation

Framing And Selecting Your Insider Project

Framing The Action Research Project

Selecting The Research Project

Writing An Insider Action Research Proposal

Developing The Action Research

Conclusions

Questions For Framing And Selecting

Writing A Thesis Proposal

Designing And Implementing Your Action Research Project

The Process Of Planned Change

Planned Change Through Action Research

Learning By Design

Data Generation As Intervention

The Role Of Technology

How Do You Know When To Stop?

Conclusions

The Process Of Implementation

Reflection For Praxis

Interlevel Dynamics In Insider Action Research

Interlevel Dynamics Of Change

Interlevel Dynamics Of Strategy

Levels Of Analysis In Action Research

Conclusions

Applying Interlevel Dynamics

Change Issues

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

Diagnosing Your Organization

Using Systems Thinking

Issues and Challenges in Researching Your Own Organization

Researching Your Own Organization

The Focus Of Researcher And System

Traditional Research

Classical Action Research

Individual Reflective Study

Tranformational Change

Action Research At Home

Conclusions

Assessing Your Research Focus

Preunderstanding, Role Duality And Access

Preunderstanding

Role Duality: Organizational And Researcher Roles

Access

Conclusions

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

Assessing Politics And Ethics

Force Field Analysis

Writing Your Insider Action Research Dissertation

An Action Research Dissertation

Constructing And Writing A Dissertation

Dissemination

Publishing

Conclusions

In Conclusion

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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