Exploiting Rapid Change in Technology

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After Data:Weaving Together the EndGame

For me, …. is like chess. It's like I'm herding a

person/readers into a certain position. Say my endgame

is an arm bar a final dissertation or thesis. I'm not gonna

actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do

is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the

direction I want you to go.

Ronda Rousey

Agenda: This week the Threads…Next week outcomes of the exercise

1. What is your golden thread? DATA2. How does this look in light of your field? LITERATURE3. What is important to you personally? DISCUSSION4. How do you sum it up? INTRO & ABSTRACT

Exercise – answer those 4 questions after listening today.NEXT WEEK – backwards mapping getting it done.

What is your golden thread?HINT: Its in your data….

Golden Thread -

Not what you thought you were studying….Not what you want to say at theend….

What your data actually confirmsas true?

What is the real outcome of your data?

Golden Thread.2

You have designed each chapter to augment that golden thread.

Now decide whether and to what extent…

Literature

How does this look in light of your field?

What needs to be reworked?

What is no longer necessary?

What new material has been written

that may add to your discussion?

Have you already written your lit? If

so, how much needs to be rewritten?

This is the story your literature has to sustain

Discussion: What is important to you?

Discussion

This is where your voice as a researcher and

writer should come through.

What do YOU want to say?

Do you have full substantiation of it?

What recommendations for future study does

that lead you towards?

What three points do you want your reader to retain?

Summing it up in a concise manner

Introduction

Not a synopsis of the whole text

But a lead in for the reader of the full journey

Leave us:

• understanding completely where we are

going

• but also wanting to travel the full

distance

A summation of the what and why of the research w a hint and the where it

ended.

Abstract

The purpose of this research…

Scope…

The methodology used …

Findings…

Conclusions…

Limitations …

Contributions…

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The full journey in 7-10 sentences

How an award winner did this

Abstract

This study explores how individuals understand and make meaning of their experiences while in the midst of

radical organizational change. Empirical materials for this research were obtained though written stories and

interviews of two groups of managers within the Canadian public sector who were themselves in the throes

of organizational change. The findings of this study were analyzed through a three dimensional narrative-

inquiry-space framework.

In this study, stories and metaphors were used as expressions of experience. The results of this study

support the postmodernist notion of a dialectical, co-constructed, and recursive relationship within

expressions, namely between metaphors and stories, and between expressions and experience. It was also

discovered that 7 key variables moderated the relationship between expressions and experience. These

variables are linked to 4 categories: cognitive, internal beliefs, relationships, and language.

The findings of this study suggest that the success of managing change is directly related to the ability of

leaders to attend to the problem of the interconnectedness between cybernetics and interpretive paradigms.

The scholarly need to address this problem was in direct response to the predominant tendency among

scholars and change practitioners to focus exclusively on either one of the two approaches. Accordingly, the

call to scholars and practitioners to shift from systems to stories is grounded in the need to shift from the

cognitive tyranny of either-or to the genius of the and. Narrative inquiry is well aligned to promoting the

cognitive genius of the and as a strategic tradition of inquiry.

Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Individuals in the Midst of

Organizational Change: A Shift from Systems to Stories by Stanley M.

Amaladas

IntroductionCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY.

Introduction

The Statement of the Problem

Background

Purpose of the Study

Significance of Study

Nature of the Study

Research Questions

Conceptual Framework

The Perspective of System Integration

The Perspective of Social Integration

On Demonstrating the Interconnection

Definition of Terms

Assumptions

Scope and Delimitation

Limitations

Functionary-effect

Tenure in Current Position

Willingness to Participate

Summary

Organization of Dissertation

Literature ReviewCHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

Overview 35

Section 1: Stories from the 18th to Early 20th Centuries 36

Rousseau's Experience and his Story of Change 36

Marx's Experience and his Story of Change 39

Weber's Experience and his Story of Change42

Durkheim's Experience and his Story of Change 44

Section 2: From Reflective Thinking to Intentional Planning 49

Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management.50

Elton Mayo and the Human Relations School. 53

The Rise of Systems Thinking 55

Cybernetics and the Steering Role of Management. 56

Section 3: The Experience of the Individual in the Midst of Change 64

The Modemist's Perspective 64

The Perspective of Postmodemism 68

Summary 70

MethodologyCHAPTER 3: RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

Description of Narrative Method of Inquiry 72

Methodological Guidelines and Implications for Social Research

77

Sample 80

The Collection of Empirical Materials 84

Establishing Validity 90

Selection of Participants 90

Functionary-effect91

Credibility 92

Reactivity 95

Ethical Concerns 96

Method of Analysis 98

Summary

ResultsCHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS OF EMPIRICAL MATERIALS

Overview

Analysis: Three-Dimensional-Narrative-Inquiry-Space 106

The First Dimension: Temporal Context

The Third Dimension: The Landscape 109

Red Team 109

Blue Team 112

The Second Dimension: The Personal and Social 113

Stories as Informed and Structured by the Use of Metaphors

The Red Team

Jennifer: It is like being a hamster on a forever turn wheel

and a dog chasing his tail 118

Kathy: It is like being card players in a game 121

Jerome: The emperor has no clothes 122

Melanie: It is like being in a tense-filled relationship

that could be cut with a knife

Joan: I am their mother hen 126

ResultsStorying as a Product of Already-Made Decisions 128

Transformation of "If ' to "When" 129

Fabricated Conclusions as Driving Decisions 131

The Forgetfulness of Authorship 132

On the Connectedness Between System Integration and Social Integration

Stories as Informed by the Power of Recall 136

Recurrence of a Recursive Relationship 140

Significance of Backward Glance 142

On the Interconnectedness Between System Integration and Social Integration

Stories about the Lack of Management Support 144

Looking Outward and Corresponding Inward Reactions 144

The Voice of Symbolic Interaction 147

The Voice of Critical Theory 148

Recursive Relationship as Proposed by Bateson 149

Stories as a Product of Competing Understandings of the Problem 150

Storied Outcomes Inadvertently Affinned by the Researcher 152

DiscussionCHAPTER 5: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Overview 188

Summary 189

Methodology 189

Summary of Findings 192

Conclusions in Relation to the First Research Question 193

Red Team: Recursive Relationships between Metaphors and Stories

Blue Team: Recursive Relationships Between Metaphors and Stories

Conclusions in Relation to the Second Research Question 203

The Cognitive Category 205

Revelation 1: The dialectical and recursive relationship between

experience and acts of attention 205

Revelation 2: The recursive relationship between already-made

decisions and experience 209

Conclusions

Conclusions 220

1. The problem is out there and the problem is co-constructed 221

Information and interpretation 229

Problem and paradox 230

On building relationships 232

On the relationship between interviewer and interviewee 233

Recommendations and Implications 236

A Statement on Social Impact. 241

Contribution to the Literature 245

Implications for Future Research

EXERCISE: Answer the questions in this set of slides for your own study – come back next time to work on the timing needed to pull it off!

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