Concept-driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change
Concept-driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change

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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9789027217738

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The Swedish Working Life Fund — a temporary organization functioning from 1990 to 1995 — distributed 10 billion Swedish crowns for workplace development and initiated 25,000 projects. About half of the total labor market was affected. This evaluation study, which is built on case studies as well as a survey of a representative sample of the project population, describes the emergent characteristics of organization development in Swedish enterprises and services. In order to locate the efforts of the Fund within an explanatory context, the study draws on the idea of concept-driven change, of participation in development processes, of development coalitions, of infrastructure for change and of a society, that is supportive of change.

Concept-Driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change
Concept-Driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change

Author: Bjørn Gustavsen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1996-10-03

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9027276153

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The Swedish Working Life Fund — a temporary organization functioning from 1990 to 1995 — distributed 10 billion Swedish crowns for workplace development and initiated 25,000 projects. About half of the total labor market was affected. This evaluation study, which is built on case studies as well as a survey of a representative sample of the project population, describes the emergent characteristics of organization development in Swedish enterprises and services. In order to locate the efforts of the Fund within an explanatory context, the study draws on the idea of concept-driven change, of participation in development processes, of development coalitions, of infrastructure for change and of a society, that is supportive of change.

Concept-Based Inquiry in Action
Concept-Based Inquiry in Action

Author: Carla Marschall

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1506391303

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Create a thinking classroom that helps students move from the factual to the conceptual Concept-Based Inquiry is a framework for inquiry that promotes deep understanding. The key is using guiding questions to help students inquire into concepts and the relationships between them. Concept-Based Inquiry in Action provides teachers with the tools and resources necessary to organize and focus student learning around concepts and conceptual relationships that support the transfer of understanding. Step by step, the authors lead both new and experienced educators to implement teaching strategies that support the realization of inquiry-based learning for understanding in any K–12 classroom.

Work Organization and Europe as a Development Coalition
Work Organization and Europe as a Development Coalition

Author: John Richard Ennals

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9789027217776

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This text proposes a development project within the field of work organisation, with participation from across Europe. It includes chapters on the nature and history of the idea of development coalition, largely rooted in the Scandinavian experience, and case studies from other European countries.

Beyond Theory
Beyond Theory

Author: Stephen Toulmin

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1996-07-22

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9027276161

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Action Research is one of the most practical and down-to-earth ways of doing research into working life. Beyond Theory draws on examples and actual cases to discuss action research within the framework of the modern, and postmodern, theory of science debate. While action research has been much criticized by the traditionalists, the book reflects a convergence between action research and positions emerging out of the critique of scientific traditionalism. Discussions between these two fields of knowledge, originally so very different, can enrich both. The book will be useful not only to researchers and academics but to anyone who is interested in the role and use of knowledge in social and organizational development.

Resources for Renewal
Resources for Renewal

Author: Satu Kalliola

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999-10-15

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9027299463

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In the 1990s, the public sector has experienced the same kind of productivity pressures as has the private sector in most of the western countries. In Finland, the state and the local government organs have pursued to meet these demands by cutting down their personnel costs and by applying various models of New Public Management. This book sheds light on the possibilities of solving the problems in public sector modernization by changing the modes of operations of work organizations. The results presented in the book are based on development expriences in Finnish municipalities, and cover a period of eight years (1991-1998).The participative approach is focused on the simultaneous development of the quality of working life and the productivity of services along the lines of Organizational Assessment. Thus, the book addresses some of the central issues within the debate on action research and on the modernization of the public services, such as “top-down” and “bottom-up” developments and the impact for the customers. A special feature in the book is a description of trade unions as actors in the development process and the role of trade union officials as developers.

Healthy Work
Healthy Work

Author: Namir Khan

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780810852853

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This reference provides an overview of relevant literature to engineers, managers, accountants, occupational health and safety specialists, and industrial hygienists, so that they, and other professionals, can understand what has caused our workplaces to become primary sources of physical and mental illness.

Development Coalitions in Working Life
Development Coalitions in Working Life

Author: Bjørn Gustavsen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9027217769

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While the need to utilise knowledge from social research in processes of development in working life is growing, there is also a growing recognition of the problems posed by this utilisation. As the belief in universal reason and general theory about topics like work organization and leadership has faded, research has to find a place as a local development actor. As such it is part of broad groups of actors, or development coalitions, as they are called in this book. Each coalition acquires unique characteristics and demands unique contributions from participating researchers. At the same time there is still a need for generalisable knowledge since all local processes are linked to global ones. Using an ongoing research-supported development program in Norwegian working life as the basis, this book explores the issues and problems associated with a new role for research as a mediator, not between general theory and local application, but between local workplace actors and global trends. The program in case encompasses a substantial number of enterprises — many of them organized in networks — and more than 50 researchers organized in seven groups, or modules.

Handbook of Action Research
Handbook of Action Research

Author: Peter Reason

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006-01-17

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781412920308

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With the Handbook of Action Research hailed as a turning point in how action research is framed and understood by scholars, this student edition has been structured to provide an easy inroad into the field for researchers and students. It includes concise chapter summaries and an informative introduction that draws together the different strands of action research and reveals their diverse applications as well as their interrelations. Divided into four parts, there are important themes of thinking and practice running throughout.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research

Author: David Coghlan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 901

ISBN-13: 1473907322

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Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields—especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research.