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963821
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b718191
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McNiff, Jean.
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| Title & Author
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Action research in organisations /\ Jean McNiff with Jack Whitehead.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2001.
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Routledge studies in human resource development
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1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0203184645
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: 0415220122
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: 0415220130
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: 9780203184646
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: 9780415220125
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: 9780415220132
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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pt. I. What is the nature of organisational knowledge? 1. Learning organisations and the responsibility of managers -- Learning about learning / Jimmy Ryan. 2. Learning organisations as good societies -- Journeyman / Seamus Lillis. 3. Action research, power and control -- Collaboration for co-liberation: a story of intentional intervention / Pip Bruce Ferguson -- pt. II. How is organisational knowledge acquired? 4. Doing research. 5. Empirical research -- Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities / Paul Murphy. 6. Interpretive research -- Understanding my work as a group leader in employment counselling / Breda Long. 7. Critical theoretic research -- Courage to risk, courage to be free / Eileen Ross. 8. Action research -- pt. III. How is organisational knowledge put to use? 9. Action research in organisations. 10. New theories of organisation -- pt. IV. What are the implications of living theories of organisation for social living? 11. What should be the focus of management education? Action research and the production of working knowledge / John Garrick. Dialogue, learning and management education / Carl Rhodes. Enquiry in action in business education? / John H.M. Ellis and Julia A. Kiely. What should be the focus of management education? / Liam Nagle. What should be the focus of management education? / Chris James. 12. My epistemology of practice of the superintendency / Jacqueline Delong. 13. How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senge's 'learning organisation' / Carmel Lillis -- Epilogue: reconciliations.
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Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. This text demonstrates how it can be utilised to promote management and organisational improvement.
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Action research.
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Organizational learning.
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Apprentissage organisationnel.
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Capital intellectuel.
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Gestion des connaissances.
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Recherche-action.
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Action research.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Negotiating.
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Business Economics.
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Management Styles Communication.
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Management.
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Organizational learning.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.3/5
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HD58.82.M39 2001eb
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| Added Entry
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Whitehead, Jack.
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| Parallel Title
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Action research in organizations
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