Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations

by Preskill, Hallie; Torres, Rosalie T.

• ISBN13: 9780761904533
• ISBN10: 0761904530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

How does evaluative inquiry contribute to organizational learning? How can we practice evaluative inquiry in ways that maximize individual and team learning? This book provides a data-based approach to organizational learning and change and focusses on the use of evaluative inquiry processes with organizations rather than across large-scale, multi-site programmes. It contains four illustrative case studies; interview extracts; strategy plans; and flow charts, diagrams and advice boxes that consultants can use for implementing their own training and development sessions.

Table of Contents

List of Strategies, Exhibits, and Figures	xi	(4)
Acknowledgments	xv	(2)
Introduction	xvii
1. Evaluative Inquiry and Organizational Change	1	(16)
2. Learning in Organizations	17	(34)
3. Evaluative Inquiry Learning Processes	51	(20)
4. Focusing the Evaluative Inquiry	71	(26)
5. Carrying Out the Inquiry	97	(34)
6. Applying Learning	131	(22)
7. Building the Infrastructure for Evaluative Inquiry	153	(30)
8. The Practice of Evaluative Inquiry	183	(10)
Questions for Facilitating Evaluative Inquiry	193	(8)
References	201	(10)
Index	211	(6)
About the Authors	217