David Coghlan SJ writes on ‘reflexive organisation’
David Coghlan SJ has recently published a book, Edgar H. Schein: The Artistry of a Reflexive Organizational Scholar-Practitioner. David is Professor Emeritus of Business Studies at Trinity College Dublin, and the author of numerous works in the field of ‘action research’. Click here to watch a video interview with David on his life and work »
Edgar H. Schein, the subject of David’s latest book, is a Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist. He is known for his significant contributions to the field of organizational behavior and organizational development. He developed a model of organizational culture that consists of three levels: artifacts and behaviors, espoused values, and assumptions. Schein also introduced the concept of career anchors, which are sets of needs, values, and talents that individuals are least willing to give up when making career choices.
David’s book adopts a reflective perspective on the work of Edgar Schein as a social scientist and shows how he developed his craft as an engaged organisational scholar-practitioner through reflexive attention to his experience in working with managers and organisations and generating knowledge out of action. He aims to present Schein’s work to students and scholars of organisation studies and to offer a reflexive methodological framework to engage scholar-practitioner in any field.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
