Document Type
Article
Date
1987
Keywords
research|social sciences
Language
English
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description/Abstract
The general purpose of organizational behavior as a discipline is to improve useful knowledge and understanding of how members of real organizations actually behave. Accordingly, organizational behavior researchers need to get inside ongoing organizations to interview and observe their members at work. In this chapter, after defining and clarifying what we mean by the term clin ical field research, we discuss several important issues that researchers face in designing and conducting clinical-field-research projects. We will give examples of how the issues have been handled by previous researchers, and in addition suggest answers to some of the questions raised by critics of this research strategy. In this way we hope to clarify the types of research questions and purposes most appropriate to clinical-field research methods.
Recommended Citation
Blanck, P., & Turner, A. (1987). Gestalt research: clinical-field-research approaches to studying organizations. Jay Lorsch, New York: Prentice-Hall., The Handbook of Organizational Behavior. (pp. 109-125).
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