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Tables of Contents for Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
About the Authors
viii
Figures
ix
Acknowledgements
x
Preface
xi
Part I Foundations
Understanding Action Research
3
13
Foundations of action research
3
4
Experiential paradigms of action research
7
8
Conclusions
15
1
Enacting the Action Research Cycle
16
11
The action research cycle
16
1
Pre-step: context and purpose
17
1
Main steps
17
2
Meta learning
19
4
Rigour in action research
23
3
Conclusions
26
1
Learning in Action
27
14
Experiential learning
28
3
Reflection
31
2
Developing reflective skills through journalling
33
2
Action research skills
35
3
Conclusions
38
1
Exercise 3.1 Keeping a journal
39
2
Researching Your Own Organization
41
22
Focus of the researcher and system
42
6
Role, access and preunderstanding
48
9
Action research at home
57
1
Conclusions
58
5
Part II Implementation
Managing Organizational Politics
63
12
The politics of researching your own organization
63
9
Ethics
72
1
Conclusions
73
1
Exercise 5.1 Force field analysis
74
1
Framing and Selecting Your Project
75
10
Framing the action research project
75
8
Selecting the research project
83
1
Conclusions
84
1
Exercise 6.1 Questions for framing and selecting
84
1
Implementing Your Action Research Project
85
12
The process of change
85
5
Review and learning
90
1
Data generation as intervention
90
5
How do you know when to stop?
95
1
Conclusions
95
1
Exercise 7.1 The process of implementation
95
2
Making Sense: Using Frameworks to Study Organizations in Action
97
13
Organizational diagnosis
97
1
Systems thinking and practice
98
2
Change and learning
100
3
Interlevel dynamics
103
4
Conclusions
107
1
Exercise 8.1 Diagnosing your organization
108
1
Exercise 8.2 Using systems practice
108
1
Exercise 8.3 Applying interlevel dynamics
109
1
Writing an Action Research Dissertation
110
9
Action research report
110
7
Dissemination
117
1
Conclusions
118
1
A Final Word
119
3
References
122
9
Name Index
131
Subject Index