Unlike other types of qualitative research, the clinical perspective in field research does not aim to be impartial and uninvolved. The clinician is usually a consultant brought in specifically to effect change in an organization, and therefore works under a very different set of technical and ethical restraints. Edgar Schein succinctly outlines the clinical perspective in field research, how it differs from other types of qualitative research and its inherent rewards and difficulties.
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This review is from: The Clinical Perspective in Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods) (Paperback)
In this book Schein make his point regarding two very different roles, that, in practice, very often become merged and mixed: the role of the ethnographer as an "invisible" recorder of the nature of a given culture or organization, where he is expected to be unobtrusive and not affecting the daily activities in the place studied.
At the other hand, the clinical perspective, stemming from action research, is a very different role: the clinician is not impartial nor uninvolved. The clinician is usually a consultant brought in specifically to effect change in an organization, but in order to change it he needs to gain trust of members of that organization, and most of all, be helpful.
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Great booklet especially for consultants,
This review is from: The Clinical Perspective in Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods) (Paperback)
In this small booklet makes Schein his first plea for the clinical perspective, later called clinical inquiry/research. He states that consultants are in the best position to do organizational research because the clients invite them to help solving organizational problems. Consultants will gather more relevant data of what is really going in the power centres of organizations than any ethnograph. His plea is today as relevant as it was 20 years ago and reading this book will initate the reader in the 'secrets' of clinical inquiry/research.
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The purpose of this monograph is to make explicit some of the assumptions and methodologies of what I am calling here the clinical perspective or model, and to contrast these with other approaches to data gathering and analysis, especially the ethnographic approach. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Coercive Persuasion : A Socio-psychological Analysis of the "Brainwashing" of American Civilian Prisoners by the Chinese Communists by Edgar H. Schein in Back Matter
- Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by John Van Maanen on page 47
- The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries on page 54
- Organizational Psychology (3rd Edition) by Edgar H. Schein in Back Matter
- Process Consultation: Its Role in Organization Development, Volume 1 (Prentice Hall Organizational Development Series) (2nd Edition) by Edgar H. Schein in Back Matter
- Research Methods for Managers by John Gill on page 94, page 161, and Back Matter
- On Organizational Learning by Chris Argyris on page 334
- Supply Chains and Total Product Systems: A Reader by Ed Rhodes on page 349
- Nachhaltigkeit im Beschaffungsmanagement: Ein Konzept zur Integration von Umwelt- und Sozialstandards (German Edition) by Julia Koplin on page 296
- Research Methods in Family Therapy, Second Edition by Douglas H. Sprenkle PhD on page 140
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