| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge studies in human resource development
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Routledge studies in human resource development.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. What is the nature of organisational knowledge? 1. Learning organisations and the responsibility of managers -- Learning about learning / Jimmy Ryan. 2. Learning organisations as good societies -- Journeyman / Seamus Lillis. 3. Action research, power and control -- Collaboration for co-liberation: a story of intentional intervention / Pip Bruce Ferguson -- pt. II. How is organisational knowledge acquired? 4. Doing research. 5. Empirical research -- Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities / Paul Murphy. 6. Interpretive research -- Understanding my work as a group leader in employment counselling / Breda Long. 7. Critical theoretic research -- Courage to risk, courage to be free / Eileen Ross. 8. Action research -- pt. III. How is organisational knowledge put to use? 9. Action research in organisations. 10. New theories of organisation -- pt. IV. What are the implications of living theories of organisation for social living? 11. What should be the focus of management education? Action research and the production of working knowledge / John Garrick. Dialogue, learning and management education / Carl Rhodes. Enquiry in action in business education? / John H.M. Ellis and Julia A. Kiely. What should be the focus of management education? / Liam Nagle. What should be the focus of management education? / Chris James. 12. My epistemology of practice of the superintendency / Jacqueline Delong. 13. How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senge's 'learning organisation' / Carmel Lillis -- Epilogue: reconciliations. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Organizational learning.
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Organizational learning. |
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Action research.
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Action research. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Whitehead, Jack.
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| Added Title |
Action research in organizations |
| Other Form: |
Print version: McNiff, Jean. Action research in organisations. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001 0415220122 (DLC) 00059197 (OCoLC)44683481 |
| ISBN |
0203184645 (electronic book) |
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9780203184646 (electronic book) |
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0415220122 (cased) |
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9780415220125 (cased) |
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0415220130 (paperback) |
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9780415220132 (paperback) |
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