ACTION RESEARCH

Risk Management and Decision Making Glossary

Risk Management and Decision Making — Action Research

Information on Action Research

Action research is a management intervention or set of activities in which three key aspects are emphasised. In the first step of action research, a group of people work together toward achievement of an agreed goal or set of goals. Secondly, they are involved in the cycle of planning, acting, observing and reflecting on their work more deliberately and systematically than usual. In the third part of action research, the experience is publicly reported. Action research involves action learning. Action research is deliberate, systematic, critical, emancipatory, rigorous and public (Perry and Zuber-Skerritt, 1991).

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