Workshops or Qualitative Studies of Organizations

Workshops: Designing and Facilitating Experiential Learning

Author: Jeff E Brooks Harris

This volume is designed to present a practical approach to designing and running workshops. It is meant to introduce novice facilitators as well as those with much experience to an integrated model of workshop design and development. Grounded in learning theory, this model is used to demonstrate how to design, facilitate, and direct workshops, as well as how to identify and improve existing skills. Practical, how-to sections assist readers in creating specific experiential activities designed to facilitate different types of learning. Readers also learn how to understand and attend to individual differences as well as to take all workshop participants through a universal cycle of learning. Workshops will be useful to anyone who facilitates workshops in higher education, adult education, business, health care, and other educational settings.

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Grounded in sources as diverse as Kolb's model of experiential learning, Jung's model of psychological types, and , Brooks-Harris (psychologist, U. of Hawaii-Manoa) and Stock-Ward (psychologist, U. of Akron) offer a practical approach to designing and running workshops. Replete with worksheets to enhance facilitation skills. Intended for those wishing to facilitate workshops that are more than misguided lectures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Qualitative Studies of Organizations

Author: John Van Maanen

The inaugural book in a new series sponsored by the Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) it is designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science that have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behavior. In this volume, editor John Van Maanen selects and introduces the compendium of ASQ articles on qualitative research. Each article serves as an exemplar of well-written, substantively focused, and theoretically relevant qualitative research. As a group, the articles represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics, and level of analysis. The studies are spread across four areas of research: organizational process, groups in organizations, organizational identity and change, and the societal and institutional environment. Organizations studied include factories, churches, universities, engineering groups, fisheries, voluntary organizations, basketball teams, pop music recording firms, and more. The authors of the works represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, political science, communication, management studies, and history.

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Inaugurates the series by reprinting from the Quarterly 13 articles illustrating qualitative research. They were selected as exemplars of well-written, substantively focused, and theoretically relevant studies. In addition they represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics, and levels of analysis. They cover organizational process, groups in organizations, organizational identity and change, and the societal and institutional environment. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Editor's Introduction: Different Strokes: Qualitative Research in the Administrative Science Quarterly from 1956 to 1996
Pt. I	Studies of Organizational Processes	1
1	The Role of Expectations in Business Decision Making	5
2	Intense Loyalty in Organizations: A Case Study of College Athletics	31
3	In Search of Rationality: The Purposes Behind the Use of Formal Analysis in Organizations	51
Pt. II	Studies of Groups in Organizations	91
4	The Macropolitics of Organizational Change: A Comparative Analysis of the Spread of Small-Group Activities	95
5	Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams	126
6	Status Degradation and Organizational Succession: An Ethnomethodological Approach	159
Pt. III	Studies of Organizational Identity and Change	193
7	The Organizational Saga in Higher Education	197
8	The Reluctant Organization and the Aggressive Environment	207
9	From Evangelism to General Service: The Transformation of the YMCA	223
10	The Creative-Destructive Process of Organizational Change: The Case of the Post Office	240
Pt. IV	Studies of the Societal and Institutional Environment	261
11	Organizational Effectiveness and the Institutional Environment	265
12	Authority, Organization, and Societal Context in Multinational Churches	287
13	The Dynamics of Institutionalization: Transformation Processes in Norwegian Fisheries	320
	Index	347
	About the Contributors	357