Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations
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Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations

About this book

How does evaluative inquiry contribute to your organizational learning? How do you practice evaluative inquiry to maximize individual and team learning? Offering you a way of thinking about and conducting evaluative inquiry in every kind of organization, Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations provides a data-based approach to organizational learning and change. By focusing on the use of evaluative inquiry processes within organizations rather than across large-scale, multisite programs, authors Hallie Preskill and Rosalie T. Torres are able to bridge the gap between what research "says" about individual, team, and organizational learning and what it "says" about evaluation. The authors lay the foundation and context for evaluative inquiry by including:

- How organizations are changing.

- What it means to learn at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

- The four learning processes that facilitate evaluative inquiry.

Through the use of an illustrative case, the authors guide you through the three phases of evaluative inquiry - from focusing the inquiry to developing action plans. Also included are interviews from four different organizations: Land O?Lakes, Colorado Department of Education, Ford Motor Company, and Presbyterian Hospital and Healthcare Services. These interviews allow you to "hear" how participants perceived and experienced these procedures. This exciting volume concludes with additional considerations when practicing evaluative inquiry, including an exploration of the evaluator?s role and challenges to implementing evaluative inquiry in today?s organizations.

Written for evaluators, managers, consultants, and trainers, Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations shows you how to integrate evaluative inquiry into your organization?s work processes so that its members are better able to make their organizations successful.

 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Strategies, Exhibits, and Figures
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 - Evaluative Inquiry and Organizational Change
  7. Organizational Change as the Status Quo
  8. Transitioning to the Knowledge Era
  9. Failure of Past Change Efforts
  10. The Role of Learning in Our Future
  11. Chapter 2 - Learning in Organizations
  12. How Individuals Learn
  13. Team Learning
  14. Developing Team Capacity for Evaluative Inquiry
  15. Ensuring Effective Team Processes for Evaluative Inquiry
  16. Challenges to Effective Evaluative Inquiry Teamwork
  17. Managing Conflict Within Evaluative Inquiry Teams
  18. When Team Members Come and Go
  19. How Organizations Learn
  20. Models of Organizational Learning
  21. Chapter 3 - Evaluative Inquiry Learning Processes
  22. Dialogue
  23. Reflection
  24. Asking Questions
  25. Identifying and Clarifying Values, Beliefs, Assumptions, and Knowledge
  26. Chapter 4 - Focusing the Evaluative Inquiry
  27. Initiating Evaluative Inquiry
  28. Defining the Evaluative Issue
  29. Identifying Stakeholders
  30. Determining Evaluative Questions
  31. Illustrative Case„Focusing the Inquiry
  32. Chapter 5 - Carrying Out the Inquiry
  33. Designing the Inquiry
  34. Methods and Procedures for Data Collection
  35. Methods and Procedures for Data Analysis and Interpretation
  36. Methods and Procedures for Communicating and Reporting
  37. Planning Formats
  38. Implementing Inquiry Activities
  39. Illustrative Case„Carrying Out the Inquiry
  40. Chapter 6 - Applying Learning
  41. Identifying and Selecting Action Alternatives
  42. Developing an Action Plan
  43. Implementing the Action Plan and Monitoring Progress
  44. Illustrative Case„Applying Learning
  45. Chapter 7 - Building the Infrastructure for Evaluative Inquiry
  46. Culture
  47. Leadership
  48. Communication
  49. Systems and Structures
  50. Chapter 8 - The Practice of Evaluative Inquiry
  51. Evaluator Roles
  52. Implementing Evaluative Inquiry in Today's Organizations
  53. Outcomes of Individual, Team, and Organizational Learning
  54. Our Hopes
  55. Questions for Facilitating Evaluative Inquiry
  56. References
  57. Index
  58. About the Authors