Conceptual Frameworks Worksheet
Conceptual Frameworks Worksheet # one For Dissertation Topic: Identifying the gaps in Collaborative leadership and Employee Engagement utilizing Strategy as Practice. The following questions (from Chapter 9 in Ravitch & Riggan, 2018) ask you to reflect on your potential research topic and clarify your thinking by Identifying your interests, beliefs, and motivations for doing research Ravitch,S&Riggan, M.(2017)Reason&rigor:How conceptualframeworks guideresearch(2nd ed.) ThousandOaks,CA:SAGEPublications, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-4833-4040-1. Ch. 9. Use references below to answer the questions. ¨ What is interesting to me and why? ¨ What personal and professional motivations do I have for engaging in this research? How might these motivations influence how I think about and approach the topic? ¨ What are my beliefs about the people, places, and ideas involved in and related to my study? Where do these beliefs come from? What assumptions underlie these beliefs? ¨ What orientations to the topic, setting, and concepts do I have? Where do these ideas come from? ¨ What is my sense of the relationship between the macro and micro sociopolitical circumstances in which people make meaning and choices in their lives? With respect to the participants in my study specifically? ¨ What is my agenda for taking up this topic in this setting at this time? (Having an agenda is not necessarily a bad thing. This may be the foundation of your argument!) What influences this agenda? What biases shape this agenda? References that you are able to google and skim thru to be able to answer the questions (Do not use any other references please): Chia, R. (2004). Strategy- as- practice: Reflections on the research agenda. Europe an Management Review, 1, 29 34. Beer, M. (2009). High commitment, high performance: How to build a resilient organization for sustained advantage. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass. Beer, M., & Eisenstat, R. (2000). The silent killers of strategy implementation and learning. Sloan Management Review. Beer, M., & Eisenstat, R. (2004, December). How to have an honest conversation about your strategy. Harvard Business Review. Heracleous, L., Angwin, D., Paroutis, S. (2016). Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases. United Kingdom: SAGE Publications. Johnson, G., Whittington, R., Melin, L., Langley, A. (2007). Strategy as Practice: Research Directions and Resources. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. O’Sullivan, R. G. (2004). Practicing Evaluation: A Collaborative Approach. United Kingdom: SAGE Publications
