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Reflection Paper #1 - Introduction To Action Research

Action research is conducted by members of an organization to generate knowledge and enact sustainable organizational change. It aims to solve real problems in the present by engaging organizational members democratically and collaboratively throughout the iterative research process. Unlike basic research which is deductive or applied research which produces concrete solutions, action research creates new knowledge through testing interventions and reflecting on their effects in real-time to address specific issues facing the organization. Researchers are both insiders immersed in the change process and detached observers studying its impacts on the system.

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Reflection Paper #1 - Introduction To Action Research

Action research is conducted by members of an organization to generate knowledge and enact sustainable organizational change. It aims to solve real problems in the present by engaging organizational members democratically and collaboratively throughout the iterative research process. Unlike basic research which is deductive or applied research which produces concrete solutions, action research creates new knowledge through testing interventions and reflecting on their effects in real-time to address specific issues facing the organization. Researchers are both insiders immersed in the change process and detached observers studying its impacts on the system.

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Ronan Y.

Villagonzalo September 26, 2019


Student Number: 11894768 BUS530M - Management Action Research

Reflection on the Introduction of Action Research


Dr. Cempron introduced in his lecture that Action Research is found in the middle
ground between Basic Research and Applied Research. While Basic Research is
conducted in a deductive process to create original ideas mostly by universities and
Applied Research are done usually by marketing people to produce concrete solutions
to concrete problems, Action Research concerns itself with new knowledge that effects
change which solve specific organizational problems.
The subject of Action Research are organizations – social constructs with embedded
systems of human actions or communities woven by sets of cultural rules, roles, and
interactions.
The impact of Action Research to the organization is Change. This organizational
change is aimed to be sustainable, will generate new knowledge, and will develop self-
help and competencies.
The researchers or doers of Action Researches are insiders or members of the
organization. They must be detached observers and learners as they themselves are
being affected by and experience the change or the processes they themselves
implement. That would mean the researchers are both the testers and the test subjects
at the same time.
The interactions that happen in an Action Research are democratic and collaborative.
The members of the system being studied interact and participate on the processes
they are subjected to. They engage with each other inside the community to co-
generate knowledge and at the same time effect relevant change to solve real and
present problems in the organization.
The time factor of Action Research is the present and real-time. Choices and actions
are carried out by the actors while these decisions are reflected upon on their effects
and lessons.
In conclusion, Action Research is research in action and not research about action. As
the processes are introduced and change is being implemented in the organization, the
organization is being observed and studied. As the researchers conduct the project,
they themselves are immersed and affected by the project, however they must still
detach themselves and be observers of themselves and learn about the learning
happening in the system. That is to say that Action Research is a spiral, iterative
process of continuous reflection using various lenses such as looking at how the
research is for me, for us and for them.

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