05449nam 2200673 a 450 991078159920332120230421050625.01-283-32787-2978661332787190-272-7616-1(CKB)2550000000064089(EBL)795687(OCoLC)769188825(SSID)ssj0000534455(PQKBManifestationID)11329782(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534455(PQKBWorkID)10518130(PQKB)10339807(MiAaPQ)EBC795687(Au-PeEL)EBL795687(CaPaEBR)ebr10509590(EXLCZ)99255000000006408919960320d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond theory[electronic resource] changing organizations through participation /[edited by] Stephen Toulmin, Björn GustavsenAmsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub.c19961 online resource (241 p.)Dialogues on work and innovation ;v. 2Description based upon print version of record.90-272-1772-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.BEYOND THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Note; Introduction; Chapter 1. Development and the Social Sciences: An uneasy relationship; Introduction; The point of origin: The experiment; The diffusion problem; General theory and local projects; A redefinition of the points of departure; The job design workshop; Reform of the work environment; The LOM program; Research and development: Issues and perspectives; The organization of this book and its main themes; Notes; Chapter 2. Workplace Development and Research: Two examples; Introduction; Pelly ABMopro ASConcluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 3. Creating Reflective Dialogue; Setting the stage: A puzzle in nursing research and practice; Creating dialogue: The first round of responses; The second round of responses: What might you do?; The third round: What about the nurse-physician relationship?; Notes; Chapter 4. Workplace Development, Gender and Communicative Competence; Introduction; Some issues of methodology; The Birth Clinic Project: An overview; The development organization; Perceptions of work in the Birth Clinic; Before (and after) the project; The homogenous groupsThe heterogeneous groups The vertical slice project management group; Results; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 5. Strategic Management from the Bottom Up: The start of a process of managerial, organizational and institutional change; Introduction; Strategic Management from the Bottom Up: building organizationalcompetences; Principles of Strategic Management from the Bottom Up; Limitations of decentralization and business units; Increasing importance of immaterial rewards; Reasons for higher involvement in strategic decision makingWhy a cross section of the organization speeds up the information flowThe implementation of Strategic Management from the Bottom Up; What are strategic questions?; Continuing Strategic Management from the Bottom Up through aknowledge platform; Implications for the content of management tasks and the position of theshop floor; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Action Research and Regional Development; A regional approach to innovative structures; Notes; Chapter 7. The Development Organization as Communicative Instrumentation: Experiences from the Karlstad program1. Background and purposes of the action research program in Karlstad2. Three phases in the development process of the K-projects; 3. Project descriptions; 4. Communicative instruments in a development organization; 5. From dialogue conferences to the development organization and beyond; Notes; Chapter 8. Searching for a Program in National Participation: An action research experiment in Turkey; I. Introduction; II. Research strategy; III. The context: structuring the organizational ecology; IV. Process principles; V. The outcomes: how action unfoldedVI. Discussion of difficulties and dilemmasAction 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 toDialogues on work and innovation ;v. 2.Organizational changeAction researchManagementEmployee participationOrganizational change.Action research.ManagementEmployee participation.658.4/063Toulmin Stephen1922-2009.50966Gustavsen Bjørn1124122MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781599203321Beyond theory3754672UNINA