The existence of complex problems throughout healthcare, business, technology, and education requires solutions using effective organizational research and consulting methods. The intersection of academic rigor and practical business application may offer valuable insights and strategies into positive organizational change. As global thought leaders and researchers from diverse fields come together to present innovative solutions, organizational research practices foster innovation in today's dynamic environment. Pioneering Paradigms in Organizational Research and Consulting Interventions: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents case studies, theoretical frameworks, and evidence-based practices to address pressing challenges facing organizational sectors. It explores contemporary organizational issues throughout supply chains, remote work, business education, corporate strategies, and more, while positing effective solutions for change. This book covers topics such as management science, healthcare ethics, and data management, and is a useful resource for academicians, researchers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals.

The existence of complex problems throughout healthcare, business, technology, and education requires solutions using effective organizational research and consulting methods. The intersection of academic rigor and practical business application may offer valuable insights and strategies into positive organizational change. As global thought leaders and researchers from diverse fields come together to present innovative solutions, organizational research practices foster innovation in today's dynamic environment. Pioneering Paradigms in Organizational Research and Consulting Interventions: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents case studies, theoretical frameworks, and evidence-based practices to address pressing challenges facing organizational sectors. It explores contemporary organizational issues throughout supply chains, remote work, business education, corporate strategies, and more, while positing effective solutions for change. This book covers topics such as management science, healthcare ethics, and data management, and is a useful resource for academicians, researchers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals.

The field of school consultation, which is centered principally in school psychology and cuts across related disciplines such as special education and school counseling, has never had a comprehensive volume that examines its research perspectives and methodologies, its models of practice, and its future research directions. That is the mission of this Handbook. It provides both producers and consumers of school consultation with an invaluable snapshot of its current boundaries and rapidly growing content. Key features of this outstanding new book include the following: research oriented - whereas many books dealing with school consultation practice have appeared over the last decade, none has attempted to provide a comprehensive review of research findings and methods supporting its growing body of evidence-based practice. author expertise - chapter authors are well known for their contributions to the school consultation research literature and, collectively, are recognized for their ability to translate scientific findings into implications for practice. commentary chapters - commentary chapters written by leading scholars provide integrative critiques of the book’s three major sections. This book is intended for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in school psychology and related human service disciplines, including special education, counselor education, counseling psychology, and school social work.

Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields—especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research.

The mining industry traditionally has not incorporated behavioral science concepts in its organizational philosophy. Using it as a case study, Organization and Development in the Mining Industry describes organization development in action, reviews principles and lessons from short -- and long-term programs of intervention, and presents case studies which illustrate the process of organizational change.

This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.