Effective Change Management Using Action Learning and Action Research

Effective Change Management Using Action Learning and Action Research

Author: Shankar Sankaran

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Textbook explaining the relevant concepts, frameworks and processes involved in action research and action learning, as it relates to managing change in business, education, and social and cross-cultural contexts. Includes contributor notes and case studies.


Managing Change in Healthcare

Managing Change in Healthcare

Author: Paul Parkin

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1412922593

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The management of change in the context of new policy directives and agendas is a critical issue for healthcare practitioners. All professionals – not just managers - need to develop and implement new services designed to bring patients into the centre of healthcare delivery. This book looks at the leadership, interpersonal, and management skills needed to manage such change effectively within multi-professional healthcare settings.


Action Learning and Action Research

Action Learning and Action Research

Author: Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 9087909543

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These songlines’sing' into history the personal story of Action Learning and Research (ALAR) by an ALAR founder, Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt. Revealed through a collection of interviews conducted by scholars from six countries, these engaging, informative, intimate stories record her ALAR journey to document history and, more importantly, to help develop skills and innovation in workplace/community and lifelong learning for everyone, including the disadvantaged and poorest. Reviewers comments: This book is a must read for action researchers of all stripes and experience levels. Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, a principal architect of ALAR who has pushed the boundaries of AR conceptually and methodologically, has now created a unique book built out of orchestrated interviews that provide us with much insight into who she is, why and how to learn from her, and invitation to collaborate in further developing our practice for the benefit of everyone. Davydd Greenwood, PhD, Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University, USA.


Lifelong Action Learning and Research

Lifelong Action Learning and Research

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9463001395

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This tribute to Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt is a celebratory Festschrift of her learning/research action-packed life. Colleagues around the world reflect on their own learning, research and professional development, with and through Ortrun, in action learning and action research (ALAR). Four Parts identify focus areas in Ortrun’s work and interests over the last 40 years. Higher Education is the site for most of Ortrun’s work experience since 1974 when she joined Griffith University in Australia. Organisations is a context where Ortrun has actively explored processes of learning, leadership and development in management education.


Action Learning in Action

Action Learning in Action

Author: Michael J. Marquardt

Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780891061243

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Marquardt brings together the six essential elements with realistic advice, practical wisdom, and such tools as checklists and a comprehensive glossary of terms. Readers can learn to leverage action learning to solve problems, develop employees, enhance personal growth, and create organizational learning.


Action Learning

Action Learning

Author: Y. Boshyk

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-02-10

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0230250734

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The first of a two volume set that fully explore the roots of action learning and the legacy of its principal pioneer, Reg Revans. Rather than prescribe one approach to action learning, it shows alternative approaches to fit different contexts, including classic action learning, action reflection learning and business driven action learning.


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.


Systemic Action Research

Systemic Action Research

Author: Danny Burns

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2007-10-24

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1861347375

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"Systemic Action Research works with live social and organisational issues to uncover their complex dynamics, reveal opportunities for effective interventions, and generate action to support whole system change." "Filled with illustrative stories and pictures which bring the concepts to life, this book shows how to design and facilitate systematic action research programmes, extending the possibilities of action research beyond the 'individual' and the 'group' to whole organisations, multi agency governance arenas, and networks." "It will be of interest to experienced action researchers, social researchers, international development organisations, community development practitioners, change management facilitators and policy makers."--BOOK JACKET.


Effective Change in Schools

Effective Change in Schools

Author: Una Connolly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1134717458

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Focusing on the Improving Schools Project in South Wales, Effective Change in Schools explores the process of successful and substantial educational change. The 32 schools which took part in the project all made significant changes in their practice in order to improve pupil achievement. This book describes and analyses the central features of that educational transformation process. The authors include: *information about the project, its aims and purposes *fresh and innovative perspective on the change process in schools and the leadership and management of change *examination of the key aspects of school effectiveness and improvement *description of the strategies adopted by the schools to initiate change and an outline of the issues that the schools faced as they attempted to move forward *consideration of the role of leadership in educational transformation and the essence of the successful leader. This is an invaluable guide to anyone endeavouring to bring about change in their own school or who has an interest in educational management and leadership.