Inside Organizations

Moving away from the common focus on studying organizations from a distance, this accessible 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 students to pay attention to what goes on in organizations, to question what they experience and ultimately to make sense of how organizations function.

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.

About the Author

David Coghlan is Professor Emeritus at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and is Fellow Emeritus of the college. He specializes in organization development and action research and is active in both communities internationally. He has published over 140 articles and book chapters. He is co-author of the internationally popular, Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization (4th ed. SAGE, 2014) and is co-editor of SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014). Other books include Organizational Strategy and Change: An Interlevels Dynamics Approach (2nd ed. Routledge, 2016). He is co-editor of the 4 volume sets, Fundamentals of Organization Development (SAGE, 2010), and Action Research in Business and Management (SAGE, 2016). He is currently on the editorial boards of: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Action Research, Action Learning: Research and Practice among others.