Unmute the Organization Through Serious Play

Frontiers in Psychology

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Frode Heldal¹  Torild Alise Oddane¹ 

[1] Faculty of Economics, Trondheim Business School, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

关键词: action research;    serious play;    replicability;    unmuting;    OU;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.607919

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In this article, we sketch up an action research process designed to give voice to those who traditionally have not had a voice in organizations. In particular, the research process was structured around “serious play” and designed as a talk show, where researchers played parts, including a talk show host, and where questions pertaining to organizational life were discussed in depth. The structure of the discussion was construed based on reflective teams, i.e., two actors performing a dialogue (talk show host and guest) and a silent group (audience) as listeners. The key research question concerns in what ways such an action research process is replicable? Applying a critical lens, we argue that even if strong claims of replicability are not met, as in being able to reproduce results and/or generalize them, this is outside the point. Rather, as we set out to apply a qualitative research design to achieve cogenerative learning effects, we advance an understanding of replicability-as-recoverability. This entails giving explicit grounds for our epistemic anchoring in critical realism and sketching out a research design which is sufficiently clear and transparent to undergo critical scrutiny.

【 授权许可】

CC BY