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Action learning helps PepsiCo's sales leaders develop business acumen and innovation skills

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 4 2007
Jay Cone
To help sales leaders understand their customers' business and innovate ways to create value for customers, PepsiCo's Strategic Customer Leadership Forum combines executive involvement, multiple learning modalities, and action learning projects that focus on real work and produce real gains for PepsiCo and its customers. A fast-paced curriculum enhanced with technology,including computer-based simulations and online assessments,emphasizes experiential learning in the context of addressing actual customer issues and goals. Executive sponsorship of action learning teams and selection of projects "keeps it real" and builds high-level commitment to the learning process. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

The Pros and Cons of Data Analysis Software for Qualitative Research

JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 4 2000
Winsome St John
Purpose: To explore the use of computer-based qualitative data analysis software packages. Scope: The advantages and capabilities of qualitative data analysis software are described and concerns about their effects on methods are discussed. Findings: Advantages of using qualitative data analysis software include being freed from manual and clerical tasks, saving time, being able to deal with large amounts of qualitative data, having increased flexibility, and having improved validity and auditability of qualitative research. Concerns include increasingly deterministic and rigid processes, privileging of coding, and retrieval methods; reification of data, increased pressure on researchers to focus on volume and breadth rather than on depth and meaning, time and energy spent learning to use computer packages, increased commercialism, and distraction from the real work of analysis. Conclusions: We recommend that researchers consider the capabilities of the package, their own computer literacy and knowledge of the package, or the time required to gain these skills, and the suitability of the package for their research. The intelligence and integrity that a researcher brings to the research process must also be brought to the choice and use of tools and analytical processes. Researchers should be as critical of the methodological approaches to using qualitative data analysis software as they are about the fit between research question, methods, and research design. [source]

Emergence explained: Abstractions: Getting epiphenomena to do real work,

COMPLEXITY, Issue 1 2006
Russ Abbott
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Egalitarian consultation meetings: an alternative to received wisdom about clinical supervision in psychiatric nursing practice

JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 6 2000
C. Stevenson RMN BA (HONS) PhD
Clinical supervision (CS) has become a watchword for psychiatric nursing. Yet, there are contradictions and controversies in academic and professional discourse in relation to the nature of CS, both structure and process, its effectiveness and how this is ascertained, the preparation of supervisor and supervisee, and the quality of the supervisory relationship. The perception of such discord encouraged the authors of this paper to step outside the debate and enact a different kind of CS, which came to be known as egalitarian consultation (EC). Egalitarian consultation meetings (ECMs) were established with the postmodern turn in psychiatric nursing as a reference point. A space was created in which participants could construct their particular version of CS. The authors and six G-grade community psychiatric nurses engaged with each other for six videotaped meetings. The data from the recordings were analysed using a hermeneutic grounded theory approach (Strauss & Corbin 1994), in keeping with the style of the research, which combined the roles of researcher and practitioner for the authors. The aim was to produce local knowledge of CS. The ECMs were characterized by a sense of freedom in relation to existing rules about hierarchy and truth. The participants, each as expert in her/his own case world, produced engrossing narratives about and for practice. The group developed a cohesiveness based in closeness and this encouraged radical talk and action , a questioning of practice systems. However, for some group members, radical equated to dangerous in terms of the watchful organization and a return to ,real' work (case supervision) was observed. Innovation in relation to CS may benefit from a change in institutional culture. [source]