Doing Action Research In Your Own Organization

Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization is the essential resource for any researcher embarking on an action research project in their own organization, and all students of organization studies, education, health studies and community studies. In this brand new edition of the popular work, Coghlan and Brannick provide an easy-to-follow, hands-on guide to every aspect of conducting an action research project in your own organization. Revised and updated, this 3rd edition contains: an expanded discussion on politics and ethics of insider action research; an expanded chapter on writing an action research dissertation; and, more case examples and reflective exercises taken from a wide variety of organizational settings. Doing Action Research is the ideal book for doctoral, MA or MBA students seeking a research topic that is based on leading change in their own organization and is essential reading for practitioner researchers and established academics in the fields of organization development and action research.