Diagnosing Organizations by Michael I Harrison
How can organizations handle the opportunities and threats posed by rapidly changing markets and external conditions? How can they improve their overall effectiveness? The Second Edition of this popular book contains up-to-date treatments of techniques and models for diagnosing how organizations deal with challenges like these. The book also shows how consultants and applied researchers can help managers find ways to enhance organizational effectiveness. Completely revised, this edition: presents the most recent techniques for gathering and analyzing diagnostic data; covers models and methods for diagnosing organizational designs, everyday practices, fits among organizational components, organizational politics and power relations; and explores the ethical and political dilemmas of consulting and diagnosis. The book retains its original coverage of the process of working with members of a client organization to plan and administer a diagnostic study and communicate its results. It also continues to focus on group processes and the quality of working life.-
Case Study Research
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Qualitative Research Design
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Ethnography
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Mixed Methodology
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Improving Survey Questions
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Applications of Case Study Research
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Narrative Research
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Survey Research Methods
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Practical Meta-Analysis
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Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis
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Scale Development
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Methods for Policy Research
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Focus Groups
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Participant Observation
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Researching Persons with Mental Illness
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Communicating Social Science Research to Policy Makers
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Measuring Community Indicators
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Telephone Survey Methods
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Analyzing Costs, Procedures, Processes, and Outcomes in Human Services
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Standardized Survey Interviewing
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Graphing Data
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Doing Urban Research
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Research in Health Care Settings
Michael I. Harrison, Ph.D, is a Senior Social Scientist in the Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He leads Agency activities in Health System Design, manages and contributes to research in delivery systems across the United States, and conducts research on organizational improvement and implementation of system change.
His publications include papers in leading health services research journals, Diagnosing Organizations: Methods, Models, and Processes (Sage, 2005), and Implementing Change in Health Systems: Market Reforms in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands (SAGE, 2004). He has given presentations and led workshops at scientific and professional conferences throughout the United States and Europe.Dr. Harrison holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. He was previously a faculty member at the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, and at Bar Ilan University in Israel; a visiting professor at Boston College and Haifa University; and a visiting scholar at Brandeis University, Georgetown University, Harvard Business School, and the Nordic School of Public Health.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803956452 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803956452 |
| Title | Diagnosing Organizations |
| Author | Michael I Harrison |
| Series | Applied Social Research Methods |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 1994-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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