Doing action research in your own organization

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Title:

Doing action research in your own organization

Author:

Coghlan, David.

ISBN:

9781848602151

9781848602168

Personal Author:

Coghlan, David.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2010.

Physical Description:

xii, 170 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Previous ed.: 2005.

Contents:

Introducing action research -- Learning in action -- Understanding action research -- Framing and selecting your insider project -- Designing and implementing your action research project -- Interlevel dynamics in insider action research -- Using frameworks to study organizations in action -- Researching your own organization -- Preunderstanding, role duality and access -- Managing organizational politics and ethics -- Writing your insider action research dissertation.

Subject Term:

Social sciences -- Research.

Action research.

Organizational change.

Added Author:

Brannick, Teresa.

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Summary

This book is the essential resource for any researcher embarking on an action research project in their own organization, and all students of organization studies, education, health studies, and community studies. In this brand new edition of the popular work, David Coghlan and Teresa Brannick provide an easy-to-follow, hands-on guide to every aspect of conducting an action research project in your own organization.

Revised and updated, this Third Edition contains:

An expanded discussion on politics and ethics of insider action research An expanded chapter on writing an action research dissertation and an action research report More case examples and reflective exercises taken from a wide variety of organizational settings

Summary

Revised and updated, this Third Edition contains: