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2. What is your favourite poem? Similarly, ask participants to choose their favourite poem, one that speaks powerfully to them – about life in general or in relation to the research topic, for example personal or organizational change and transition. Ask participants to read their chosen poem,
1. Can you think of rap or hip-hop as a poetic form, a means of selfexpression facilitated by a highly rhythmic and ‘funky’ beat? Conduct a workshop as a form of karaoke, as a ‘fun’ event. Set up a sound system that can play appropriate backing tracks. Ask participants to rap(individually
5. What are the main challenges involved in interpreting and analysing the data that emerge from stories?
4. What problems might you encounter when working with a group to elicit stories? In your preparation for the first meeting, what could you do that might help to ameliorate these potential difficulties?
3. How would you prepare differently for a ‘facts-as information’ interview and a ‘facts-as-experience’ interview?
2. How would you determine whether the story being told was true or not?What are the implications for your research if you discover that the story was not factually true?
1. What are the important differences between stories that are told and retold within an organisation, and those that are told to you, the research interviewer, perhaps for the first time?
3. clear objectives are articulated that are of value in relation to both of the aims –and therefore of interest to both participants and researcher(s);
2. the dual aims are outlined, in this case providing an opportunity for participants to ‘explore and learn’ (probably of greatest interest to the participants) and to conduct a research project (probably of greatest interest to the researcher);
1. the nature of the process (bringing ‘live’ case studies to be worked on by the group) and the theme of the research;
4. How would you represent your personal experience of, and the emotions generated in, the process of undertaking research in a drawing?
3. Why may the data emerging from art or drawings be seen as‘multifaceted’?
2. What ethical challenges are involved in the use of art and drawings as a method in organizational and management research?
1. How would you defend and explain the ‘qualitative power’ of drawings(Stiles, 2004) and similar arts-based research methods?
3. Whole-group work – showing and discussion of each drawing in turn –80 minutes, i.e. approximately 10 minutes per drawing
2. Inviting them to reflect individually on their drawings – 10 minutes
1. Asking research participants to produce a drawing – 10 minutes
4. Why would it be helpful for co-researchers’ initial ideas about creative dialogue to be mapped at an early stage in the research process using the three-stage procedure discussed in this chapter?
3. How do you see the differences between dialogue and other processes for working with different viewpoints such as mediation, conciliation and arbitration?
2. Why might participants in a creative dialogue resist the process?
1. What is the distinction between a ‘normal’ work meeting and a creative dialogue, and why not use the former as a research tool instead of dialogue?
Can we make it
Will it work in our own organizations, and, if so, where?What is dialogue?
Can we make it easy and simple to apply?
Dialogue requires people to work with their uncertainties. It is not about defending one’s certainties.
Dialogue attempts to bring about change at the source of our thoughts and feelings
Dialogue is a conversation with a centre – not sides
Dialogue is a conversation in which people think together. You relax your grip on certainty and listen to the possibilities that emerge
We seek to uncover shared meanings that can help align our actions with our values
The intention in dialogue is to reach new understanding and in doing so to form a new basis from which to think and act
Dialogue is the art of thinking together
Our ability to think and make good decisions is generally damaged by two things: false harmony and constant arguments. Both stop us thinking together
5. How may creative methods be seen as seductive?
4. What are the special ethical considerations involved in creative approaches to organizational research?
3. Is all qualitative research political?
2. Why is researcher reflexivity so important in the effective use of creative inquiry methods in organizational and management research?
1. Why is it important that the researcher has awareness of the philosophical (ontological and epistemological) bases of his or her proposed study?
The experience of women is not substantially different from that of their male counterparts, and therefore there were no issues to be studied
Because the power-holders in local authorities are largely male, the study could alienate them and produce a ‘male backlash’
Such a study ran the risk of making women’s experiences worse rather than better, by replacing old stereotypes with new ones
There was no need for the study: women were being appointed in greater numbers and, in fact, you were now more likely to be appointed if you were a woman
The politics involved in gaining access to organizations and developing a relationship with participants.
The researcher’s leadership of, and power in, the research process; and,
The aim is to see how people’s realities are socially produced
Key conceptions and understandings (theory) are worked out with the research participants who can ‘collaborate in displaying key features of their world’(Alvesson and Deetz, 2000, p. 34)
People are not considered to be objects, but rather active sense-makers along with the researcher
The organization is a social site – the emphasis is on the social rather than the economic
it may help the researcher to identify or create designs that may be outside his or her past experiences.
it helps the researcher to recognize which designs work or do not work;
an understanding can clarify research designs;
4. Why is a collaborative relationship between the researcher and the research participant one that is likely to be fruitful for experimentation with different methods of inquir
3. What is the case against using creative methods in organization and management research?
2. Why might the use of creative methods sit uneasily within a positivist/scientific research paradigm?
1. What forms of possible resistance to the use of creative research methods might the organizational and management researcher meet when seeking access to undertake a study?
Continuing prevalence of psychoanalytical approaches – the role that repressed thoughts, unconscious defences and fantasies play among people and groups in organizational life.
Growth of a social constructionist approach
A concern with aesthetics and emotion, the meaning that we sometimes invest in material objects at work
4. Collaborative approaches to inquiry are appropriate for the exploration of human experience
3. The data that are generated by creative methods often take on metaphorical forms, and metaphor offers insights into organizational experience.
2. The creative arts can enhance our capacity to find different expressive forms to inquire into human experience.
1. An appreciation of the rich and multifaceted dimensions of human experience can make an important contribution to our understanding of social systems.
Further reading
Discussion questions
Conclusion
The importance of a collaborative researcher/research participant relationship in the use of creative methods
The use of metaphor in organizational and management research
How creative methods can make it possible to find different expressive forms
Working with multifaceted dimensions of human experience
The challenges involved in researching social phenomena in organizations
How a creative capacity for expression may offer ways of inquiring into human experience in organizations
Discussion questions
Further reading
Conclusion
Working with the data
Case studies of where the approach has been used before
How to use the approach
Underlying principles and theory
What this approach is, and why it should be used
Identify strategies that parents might use to stay abreast of digital media advances and ways they can effectively address their concerns with their children
Select a specific issue within the difficult conversation areas of genetics or money. Explain how you might suggest to a family you know how an adult member could address the topic meaningfully with other members.
In what ways would you predict that family therapy would differ across two ethnic groups?
Take a position on the following question: To what extent should couples or parents be required by religious or civic institutions to engage in family enrichment workshops or family therapy?
What goals and criteria would you establish for a successful marriage or family enrichment program with a communication focus? Briefly describe the audience you envision (e.g., a stepfamily with school-aged children).
Analyze the prescriptions for marital or parent-child communication found in a popular book or magazine article. Evaluate the effectiveness of the advice based on your understanding of family systems and communication patterns.
How would you describe communication in a well-functioning family?Answer within a context of a specific developmental stage, culture, and family form (e.g., a two-parent, Chinese family with adolescents).
Identify and explain three effective and three ineffective ways for family members to influence each other’s health.
In what ways should family communication about health change over one’s lifespan?
Understand the authors' final perspectives on family communication
Explain approaches for improving family communication
Understand family communication about difficult topics, including genetic risk, money, financial stress, and new technology challenges
Describe the association between family communication and physical well-being
Give examples of Level I, II, and III coping strategies that reflect how families cope with crises.
Using Baxter’s concepts of dialectical contradictions in relationships, discuss with examples how you think crises affect openness-closedness, predictability-novelty, and autonomy-connectedness in a family system.
What guidelines for communication would you recommend to spouses who have children and are about to separate?
How do different cultural and/or religious attitudes toward death aid or restrict the mourning process for surviving family members?
Describe how a “happy event” has brought high levels of stress to a family with which you are familiar.
Using the same example of family stress, compare and contrast an analysis of the problem according to the ABCX model and the double ABCX model.
Using a real or fictional family, analyze the effects on the family of a severe stress that impacted one member (e.g., drug problem, serious car accident, or severe illness).
Describe specific types of crises and how family communication is affected by these
Understand unpredictable stress that families face and how they cope

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