عنوان

Making sense in testing times :

شماره

TLets404331

عنوان اصلي

Making sense in testing times :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Reissner, Stefanie Constanze

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a narrative analysis of organisational change & learning

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Durham University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2004

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Durham University

امتياز متن

2004

متن يادداشت

The main themes of this thesis focus on organisational change and learning indifferent geo-political contexts, bound together in a common moment ofglobalisation. These topics are explored through three case-studies from themanufacturing sector, one each from the United Kingdom, the Republic of SouthAfrica and the Russian Federation. The project, on which this thesis is based. had aqualitative and interpretive design and took a comparative, narrative approach. Itargues on the basis of this comparison, that organisational learning has to be relatedto the wider environment in which companies operate; individualistic models oflearning are inadequate to explain the complex processes involved in learning inorganisations.The thesis demonstrates that learning is most productively viewed as a form of sensemaking,which is particularly important in periods of change. This way of thinkingabout work-based learning subsumes all previous analytical descriptions of learningat work and all methods of promoting it, as sub-sets of a more generic process:making sense of experience. This approach of conceiving learning draws attention tothe fact that learning involves the whole person, their sense of self, theirunderstanding of the past and their grasp of the skills and relationships involved intheir jobs. The concept of sense-making is explored at three levels - the macro-levelwith a focus on globalisation, the meso- or organisational level with an emphasis onstrategic change and the micro- or personal level highlighting individual experiencesof change and learning at the workplace.Narrative analysis is a powerful tool in organisational research to recover accounts oflearning because it is through stories that people construct and make sense of theworld. The comparative frame to this study highlights the cultural, historical andsituated nature of narratives. This thesis shows that globalisation and strategicchange are not impersonal phenomena, but become real and meaningful toeverybody in an organisation through stories. Comparisons help to make otherwisetacit issues explicit.

موضوع مستند نشده

Law Law enforcement Prisons International trade

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Reissner, Stefanie Constanze

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Durham University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y