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Action Research in Organizations - Participation in Change Processes

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Wie vollzieht sich Wandel in Organisationen? Was bedeutet Zusammenarbeit in einem Unternehmen? Was können wir aus Erfahrungen lernen? Das Buch untersucht organisationale Veränderungsprozesse auf Basis von Kooperationserfahrungen zwischen Arbeitgeber*innen, Arbeitnehmer*innen und Aktionsforscher*innen in Europa und den USA in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Autor*innen identifizieren zentrale Akteure und Impulsgeber von Veränderung, zeichnen Machtverhältnisse nach und weisen auf mögliche Dilemmata hin. Dabei entwickeln sie zentrale Erkenntnisse über Prozesse der Partizipation und Veränderung in Organisationen, von denen Forschung und Praxis gleichermaßen profitieren können.

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Preface by Werner Fricke

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Participation in organizational changes

Chapter 1 An example of tensions and dilemmas in organizational action research

'On the infinitely large in the infinitely small' in Team Product Support

What and why

1.Tensions between participation as involvement and/ or as co-determination

2.Tensions, positionings and the exercising of power

3.Experimental change of communication patterns in Team Product Support

4.Tensions between the smaller project context and larger organizational, societal and global agendas

5.Tensions in the management of organizational difference through dissensus

Reflections

Chapter 2 A historical view of employee participation: four understandings

What and why

1. Participation in working life: a mixed bag

2. Participation as industrial democracy

3. Two phases of participation as individualized involvement

4. Participation as autonomy

5. Some conclusions

Reflections

Part II: An empathetic-critical view of participation in organizational action research in the twentieth century- From self-managing groups to co-generation of practical and theoretical change?

Chapter 3 Change-oriented social science: Early organizational action research in the USA in the 1940s

What and why

1.Aims and perspectives

2.The Harwood studies: Action research at Harwood

3.The Harwood Experiments

4.Discussion of Lewin's view of participation

5.Discussion of Lewin's theory of change

6.Lewin's view of action research: A philosophy of science perspective

7.Some conclusions

Reflections

Chapter 4 The origin of socio-technical systems thinking- Studies at British coal mines in the 1950s

What and why

1.Introduction and aims

2.The Tavistock group's experiences before, during and after the Second World War

3.Initial studies at the Haighmoor mine

4.Follow-up studies in the Durham collieries

5.The new paradigm

6.Socially engaged accompanying research: between research 'on' and research 'with'

7.Conclusion

Reflections

Chapter 5 Industrial democracy: Experiments in Norway in the 1960s

What and why

1.Introduction

2.Background: the democratic endeavour

3.Analysis of two field studies

4.A democratic paradox?

5.Discussion of NIDP as applied research

6.ConclusionsReflections

Chapter 6 Democratic dialogues-Dialogue conferences in Norway and Sweden in the 1980s

What and why

1.Background

2.Aims and structure

3.The organization of democratic dialogic development processes

4.An example of democratic dialogue

5.Participation in the practical dimension of the research process: deliberation and decision

6.Deliberative democracy and democratic dialogues in organizations

7.Participation and exclusion

8.Exclusion of research from democratic dialogues?

9.Conclusions

Reflections

Chapter 7 Pragmatic action research-Projects in Spanish cooperatives in the latter half of the 1980s

What and why

1.Background

2.Aims and perspectives

3.A characterization of pragmatic action research

4.Organization of participatory action research in Fagor

5.Pragmatic action research as co-generative research

6.Is pragmatic action research a participatory, conventional, applied and/or phronetic science?

7.ConclusionsReflections

Chapter 8Parti

About the author










Marianne Kristiansen, Ph.d., emeritierte Professorin der Universität Aalborg, Kopenhagen, Dänemark
Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen, Ph.d., Senior Lecturer an der Universität Kopenhagen, Dänemark

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Authors Bloch, Bloch-Pouls, Ass. Ph. D. Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen, Ass. Prof. Ph. D. Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen, Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen, Ass Prof em Ph D Mariann Kristiansen, Ass. em. Ph. D. Marianne Kristiansen, Ass. Prof. Em. Kristiansen, Ass. Prof. em. Ph.D. Marianne Kristiansen, Mariann Kristiansen, Marianne Kristiansen
Publisher Verlag Barbara Budrich
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.12.2020
 
EAN 9783847424451
ISBN 978-3-8474-2445-1
No. of pages 328
Dimensions 150 mm x 19 mm x 211 mm
Weight 428 g
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology

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