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Inside Organizations
Exploring Organizational Experiences
First Edition
- David Coghlan - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
October 2016 | 120 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Moving away from the common/traditional focus on studying organizations from a distance, this highly engaging book introduces the idea of studying them from the inside.
Inside Organizations: Exploring Organizational Experiences guides placement students, and any student undertaking part-time work in an organization, through 'insider inquiry', helping them to develop key reflexive and critical thinking skills for their future careers.
It encourages you to pay attention to what goes on in organizations, to question what you experience and ultimately to make sense of how organizations function, helping you to develop key reflexive and critical thinking skills for your future careers.
This book is ideal for students on programmes with a placement or internship element such as business and management, nursing and health, and education and is especially useful to those doing reflective journals and essays.
Inside Organizations: Exploring Organizational Experiences guides placement students, and any student undertaking part-time work in an organization, through 'insider inquiry', helping them to develop key reflexive and critical thinking skills for their future careers.
It encourages you to pay attention to what goes on in organizations, to question what you experience and ultimately to make sense of how organizations function, helping you to develop key reflexive and critical thinking skills for your future careers.
This book is ideal for students on programmes with a placement or internship element such as business and management, nursing and health, and education and is especially useful to those doing reflective journals and essays.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Being Inside Organizations
Chapter 2. Inquiring from the Inside
Chapter 3. Personal Learning in the Workplace
Chapter 4. Levels and Interlevel Behaviour
Chapter 5. Experiencing the Organizational Underworld
Chapter 6. Experiencing Strategic Processes
Chapter 7. Experiencing Organizational Learning and Change
Conclusions
Appendix 1 Keeping a Learning Journal
Appendix 2 Writing a Reflective Essay
A detailed and practical review of all the different ways that insiders could and should inquire into and about their organizational experiences. The reader will find reviews of all the individual, group, organizational, strategic, and interlevel concepts and tools of analysis that have evolved in the last fifty years for making sense of the complexities of organizational life.
MIT Sloan School of Management, Author of Humble Inquiry
Accessible by students and tutors alike, this is a clear and comprehensible study of benefit to students of business and beyond.
Director, Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University
Coghlan takes the student on a journey of the most important contributions made in the area of organizational behaviour
University of Bradford School of Management
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