Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization
- David Coghlan - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
With an encouraging and approachable tone, David is the perfect mentor for anyone conducting action research in their own organization. Calming nerves at the same time as building confidence, he helps readers devise an appropriate research design that anticipates possible challenges and fits within the limits of their environments.
A complete do-it-yourself toolkit for every step of the action research process, this edition is outfitted with:
- Real-world student and professional case studies
- Author video tips
- Annotated templates
- Progress checklists
- Journal articles, weblinks, and other further reading.
To the point without losing clarity or thoroughness, this book is the hands-on manual for all the need-to-know facts about understanding and undertaking insider action research.
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This book is needed for advanced modules in research
Good book with good guidance and exercise; Provides good advice on action research.
This book helped me to design my research module and provide practical examples of action research. I really like the way the author structure the information in the book.
Mature and professional MBA students require to look at and explore their organisations with some sort of anthropological and ethnographic eyes. This book provides a simple, but not simplistic, approach to understanding and applying the value of action research in knowledge creation based on personal practice and experience. It is an excellent guide in discovering and using effectively action research in making sense of the work place and supporting internal change agents.
