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Innovatory Qualifications and Democratic Participation: Experiences and Reflexions stimulated by an Action Research Project
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Abstract "This paper is about an action research project which took place from 1976
– 1979 in a screw factory in Northern Germany. This is long time ago, but
the action research process has developed perspectives which are very up
to date thirty five years later, in German trade unions as well as in work
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"This paper is about an action research project which took place from 1976
– 1979 in a screw factory in Northern Germany. This is long time ago, but
the action research process has developed perspectives which are very up
to date thirty five years later, in German trade unions as well as in work
life in general.
Within a joint learning and development endeavour 45 workers and a
group of 5 researchers (3 sociologists, 1 psychologist,
1 engineer) have co-operated in a democratic participation process. We
experienced action research as dialogical, devoted to democracy as a
value, enhancing all participants’ innovative qualifications, and very much
based on joint learning and education. One of the main results is the better
knowledge of preconditions for democratic participation in work life:
Democratic participation needs public spaces in organisations; it needs
time to develop; changes must meet participants’ interests; cooperation
between participants has to be as much non-hierarchical as possible (see
Gustavsen’s concept of democratic dialogue: Gustavsen 1992); and there
has to be a lot of learning and education incorporated into the action
research process." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
action research; Federal Republic of Germany; old federal states; codetermination; firm; world of work; working conditions; employee; action orientation; worker participation; innovation
Classification
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 139-159
Journal
International Journal of Action Research, 7 (2011) 2
ISSN
1861-1303
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications