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.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: What is the Nature of Organisational Knowledge? 1. Learning Organisations and the Responsibility of Managers 2. Learning Organisations as Good Societies 3. Action Research, Power and Control Part 2: How is Organisational Knowledge Acquired? 4. Doing Research 5. Empirical Research 6. The Interpretive Research Paradigm 7. The Critical Theoretic Research Paradigm 8. Action Research Part 3: How is Organisational Knowledge put to Use? 9. Action Research in Organisations 10. New Theories of Organisation Part 4: What are the Implications for Living Theories of Organisation as Generative Transformational Processes? 11. What Should be the Focus of Management Education? 12. My Epistemology of Practice of the Superintendency 13. How One School is Fulfilling the Vision of Peter Senge's 'Learning Organization'

About the author

Jean McNiff, Jack Whitehead

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Mcniff, McNiff Jean, Jack Whitehead, Whitehead Jack
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9780415220125
• ISBN: 978-0-415-22012-5
• No. of pages: 348
• Weight: 800 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, Personnel & human resources management, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Personnel and human resources management, Organizational theory and behaviour, Research methods: general