Action Research on Operations Research for Street ChildrenSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 37-49 - 2002
Marthi Harmse, Anne-Marié Pothas, Andries G. de Wet
This paper discusses an application of the CRASP model of Action Research (AR) on Operations Research (OR). The CRASP model portrays AR as a style of staff development that would lead to professionalism. It also advocates social responsibility, committed and informed action, and a critical approach. All of these concerns are inherent to the process of reflection and development characteristic of O...... hiện toàn bộ
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive SkillSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 36 Số 5 - Trang 803-825 - 2023
Rajneesh Chowdhury
Abstract
Considering Systems Thinking (ST) as a cognitive skill can create greater acceptability of and openness to the discipline from practitioners and researchers outside operations research and management science. Rather than associating ST with frameworks and methodologies, ST as a cognitive skill can help popularize and democratize the discipline. This paper ...... hiện toàn bộ
A Theoretical Framework for Facilitating Methodological ChoiceSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 295-318 - 1998
Steve Clarke, Brian Lehaney, Steve Martin
Total Systems Intervention, in a recent version, facilitates the intervention process via three modes: problem solving, critical reflection, and critical review. Of these modes, there has been relatively little attention paid to the critical review mode, the purpose of which is to assess the value of different methodologies within a given problem situation. This paper takes as its basis the only m...... hiện toàn bộ
Reframing Cognitive Behaviour Theory from a Systems PerspectiveSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 31 - Trang 495-507 - 2017
Victor MacGill
The author has worked with Cognitive Behaviour Theory for many years. His interest in systems theory prompted him to explore CBT from a systems perspective. This led to six observations that are then explored. This paper therefore begins by looking at the linearity of CBT and how feedback loops might be better incorporated. Next, the nature of perception is explored with ideas from Maturana and ot...... hiện toàn bộ
Janusian Mapping: A Mechanism of InterpretationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 21 - Trang 211-225 - 2008
E. Isaac Mostovicz, Nada K. Kakabadse, Andrew P. Kakabadse
In this paper it is argued that human interpretation is an inherently paradoxical and complex mechanism. Human interpretation is underpinned by values, preferences and contrasts, and assumptions, and surfaced through an idiosyncratic combination of personal choice and logic (Pinker, The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature, 2003). In order to find ways through interpretive diversity, Jan...... hiện toàn bộ
Turning Hindsight into Foresight—Our Search for the “Philosopher's Stone” of FailureSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 791-803 - 2001
Joyce Fortune, Geoff Peters
This paper tells the story of work using Systems thinking to study failure. It describes the methodological developments that have taken place in this area at the Open University and looks at how the emphasis has shifted from the examination of past failures to the prediction and prevention of future failures and the facilitation of organizational learning through the analysis of failures. It ends...... hiện toàn bộ
Elicitation of Tacit Knowledge Using Soft Systems MethodologySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 32 - Trang 521-555 - 2018
Payam Hanafizadeh, Fakhrossadat Ghamkhari
Elicitation of tacit knowledge is of paramount importance in organizations for novice people’s use of experts’ knowledge. One of the shortcomings of knowledge elicitation techniques is lack of consensus among experts in eliciting tacit knowledge. In other words, experienced individuals have different viewpoints regarding the statement of complicated knowledge activities. Hence, using soft thinking...... hiện toàn bộ
Networked Based Evaluation: ArtsSmarts Inquiry ModelSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 25 - Trang 407-416 - 2012
Saad Chahine
There are many handbooks on research and evaluation that are useful to read but difficult to implement in complex networked situations. This paper describes the ArtsSmarts Inquiry Model (AIM), which is founded on action research principles, and allows for networks of partners to conduct program evaluations. The AIM emerged from a special research project funded by the Canadian Council on Learning ...... hiện toàn bộ