Concept Driven Development And The Organization Of The Process Of Change

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9027217734

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Concept-driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Bjørn Gustavsen,Bernd Hofmaier,Marianne Ekman Philips,Anders Wikman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789027276155

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Concept-Driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change by Bjørn Gustavsen,Bernd Hofmaier,Marianne Ekman Philips,Anders Wikman Pdf

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.

Author : John Richard Ennals,Björn Gustavsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9027217777

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Work Organization and Europe as a Development Coalition by John Richard Ennals,Björn Gustavsen Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Toulmin,Bjørn Gustavsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789027276162

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Beyond Theory by Stephen Toulmin,Bjørn Gustavsen Pdf

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.

Author : Satu Kalliola,Risto Nakari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789027299468

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Resources for Renewal by Satu Kalliola,Risto Nakari Pdf

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.

Author : Namir Khan,Nina Nakajima,Willem H. Vanderburg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0810852853

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Healthy Work by Namir Khan,Nina Nakajima,Willem H. Vanderburg Pdf

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.

Author : Bjørn Gustavsen,Tom Colbjørnsen,Øyvind Pålshaugen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789027217769

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Development Coalitions in Working Life by Bjørn Gustavsen,Tom Colbjørnsen,Øyvind Pålshaugen Pdf

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.

Author : Guido Becke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642386947

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Mindful Change in Times of Permanent Reorganization by Guido Becke Pdf

Since the 1990ies, organizations from different sectors have been operating in increasingly dynamic socio-economic environments characterized by unexpected events and instability. Organizations tend to adjust to dynamic environments by change initiatives promoting permanent reorganization. Such change initiatives often induce unintended effects, e.g. an erosion of trust, the violation of ‘psychological contracts’ in employees’ eyes or a decrease in organizational effectiveness. This book explores and analyzes whether such unintended effects can be anticipated or constructively dealt with by mindful change. The latter refers to the concept of organizational mindfulness that originally is linked to risk and safety research, e.g. in respect to ‘High Reliability Organizations’. In this book, organizational mindfulness is re-conceptualized addressing organizational change in the perspective of organizational sustainability. Moreover, it is explored how institutions foster or restrict organizations’ capability of organizational mindfulness in change processes.

Author : Werner Fricke,Peter Totterdill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9027217858

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Action Research in Workplace Innovation and Regional Development by Werner Fricke,Peter Totterdill Pdf

The past is an increasingly unreliable guide to the future. European workplaces and the regions in which they are located face unprecedented pressures and challenges. Whereas in recent decades incremental adaptation has largely been sufficient to cope with external change, it is no longer clear that this remains the case. Globalisation, technological development and dissemination, political volatility, patterns of consumption, and employee expectations are occurring at a rate which is hard to measure. The rate of change in these spheres is far outstripping the rate of organisational innovation in both European enterprises and public governance, leading to a serious mismatch between the challenges of the 21st Century and the organisational competence available to deal with them. In this context, there is no clear roadmap. The contributors to this volume address these issues and demonstrate that building the knowledge base required by actors in this volatile environment requires continuous dialogue and learning – a context in which social partners, regional policy makers and other participants share diverse knowledge and reflect on experience rather than seeking and imitating any notion of 'best practice'. Action Research has a crucial role to play, embedding shared learning within the process of innovation.

Author : Peter Reason,Hilary Bradbury
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412920302

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Handbook of Action Research by Peter Reason,Hilary Bradbury Pdf

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.

Author : David Coghlan,Mary Brydon-Miller
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781473907324

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research by David Coghlan,Mary Brydon-Miller Pdf

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. To watch a video of editor David Coghlan discuss the importance of this major reference work as well as the implications, challenges and successes of editing The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, click here: http://youtu.be/P6YqCdZCZCs

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Action research
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082829734

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Concepts and Transformation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter George Malvicini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924084757958

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Constructing Dialogs to Understand Transformation by Peter George Malvicini Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural services
ISBN : UOM:39015073882402

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Going to Scale by Anonim Pdf

Author : International Labour Organization. Central Library and Documentation Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCSD:31822022923734

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International Labour Documentation by International Labour Organization. Central Library and Documentation Bureau Pdf