Machine generated contents note: 1.Introducing Action Research -- Inquiring in your own organization -- A brief introduction to action research -- Three audiences, voices or 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 -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 1.1: Enacting the action research cycles -- 2.Knowing in Action -- Knowing and learning -- General empirical method -- Authenticity -- Action science and collaborative developmental action inquiry as first-person practice -- Second-person skills -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 2.1 First-person knowing in action -- Exercise 2.2 Keeping a journal -- Exercise 2.3 Developing inquiry skills -- 3.Understanding Action Research -- Action research as practical knowing -- The foundations of action research -- The philosophy of action research --

Contents note continued: Modalities of action research -- Organization development through action research -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- 4.Constructing and Selecting Your Insider Project -- Constructing the action research project -- Selecting the research project -- Writing an insider action research proposal -- Developing the action research -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 4.1 Questions for constructing and selecting -- Exercise 4.2 Writing a thesis proposal -- 5.Designing and Implementing your Action Research Project -- The process of planned change -- Planned change through action research -- Learning mechanisms -- Data generation as intervention -- The role of technology -- How do you know when to stop? -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 5.1 The process of implementation -- Exercise 5.2 Reflection for praxis -- 6.Interlevel Dynamics in Insider Action Research -- Interlevel dynamics of change -- Interlevel dynamics of strategy --

Contents note continued: Levels of analysis in action research -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 6.1 Applying interlevel dynamics -- Exercise 6.2 Change issues -- Exercise 6.3 The learning window -- 7.Using Frameworks to Study Organizations in Action -- Organizational diagnosis -- Systems thinking and practice -- Change and learning -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 7.1 Understanding your organization -- Exercise 7.2 Using systems thinking -- 8.Researching your Own Organization -- Focus of the researcher and the system -- Quadrant 1 -- Quadrant 2 -- Quadrant 3 -- Quadrant 4 -- Action research at home -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 8.1 Assessing your research focus -- 9.Preunderstanding, Role Duality and Access -- Preunderstanding -- Role duality: organizational and researcher roles -- Access -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 9.1 Assessing Your Preunderstanding -- 10.Managing Ethics and Organizational Politics --

Contents note continued: Ethics -- Politics -- Integrating roles, politics and ethics -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Exercise 10.1 Assessing ethics and politics -- Exercise 10.2 Force field analysis -- 11.Writing up your Insider Action Research Work -- An action research dissertation -- Constructing and writing your dissertation -- Dissemination -- Publishing -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- 12.In Conclusion.