Successful Grants Program Management or Action Research in Organisations

Successful Grants Program Management

Author: David G Bauer

As school districts struggle with decentralized management, the need to coordinate grant proposal development has grown dramatically. This indispensable resource contains all the practical tools that districts need to manage cross-curricular proposals for all their schools. It describes the key elements of a successful grants system, explains the legal, ethical, and financial requirements of grantseeking programs, and offers worksheets and checklists to help organize every aspect of grants promotion and administration. Grants expert David Bauer shares sound advice and such important instruments as:

• A planning matrix for refining goals and objectives
• A systems analysis spreadsheet for reviewing budget and staff resources
• A step-by-step outline for developing a grants procedure manual

This comprehensive guide also shows how to provide grantseekers with computer-based research tools. Timely and practical, Successful Grants Program Management focuses on the district's role in winning corporate, federal, and foundation grants.

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Action Research in Organisations

Author: Jean McNiff

Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. This text demonstrates how it can be utilized to promote management and organizational improvement.

Table of Contents:

	The contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	Prologue: contextualising the study	25
Pt. I	What is the nature of organisational knowledge?	33
1	Learning organisations and the responsibility of managers	37
	Learning about learning	60
2	Learning organisations as good societies	67
	Journeyman	89
3	Action research, power and control	95
	Collaboration for co-liberation: a story of intentional intervention	115
Pt. II	How is organisational knowledge acquired?	125
4	Doing research	127
5	Empirical research	142
	Rehabilitating sexual offenders in religious communities	154
6	Interpretive research	160
	Understanding my work as a group leader in employment counselling	173
7	Critical theoretic research	177
	Courage to risk, courage to be free	192
8	Action research	197
Pt. III	How is organisational knowledge put to use?	219
9	Action research in organisations	221
10	New theories of organisation	242
Pt. IV	What are the implications of living theories of organisation for social living?	257
11	What should be the focus of management education?	259
	Action research and the production of working knowledge	259
	Dialogue, learning and management education	261
	Enquiry in action in business education?	264
	What should be the focus of management education?	269
	What should be the focus of management education?	272
12	My epistemology of practice of the superintendency	274
13	How one school is fulfilling the vision of Peter Senge's 'learning organisation'	285
	Epilogue: reconciliations	297
	References	302
	Index	323