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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.
Inquiring from the Inside
Inquiring from the Inside
A conversation between a student engaging in insider inquiry and his lecturer:
Student: Management doesn’t care.
Lecturer: How do you know that management doesn’t care? It could be that your interpretation is wrong or that you have missed or overlooked some evidence. What is it in your experience that has led you through interpreting to the conclusion or judgement that management doesn’t care? It could be that management does care but doesn’t know how to show it. Or it could be that you are so angry and alienated that you are blind to any caring efforts management might be making.
Student: This is a tough question. I need to go back to my notes and reflections to see how I worked through all ...
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