Development of tools for organizational improvement from the perspective of social constructionism

• Project/Area Number: 22530404
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: SUGIMAN Toshio 京都大学, 大学院・人間・環境学研究科, 教授 (10135642)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): RAKUGI Akiko 岡山県立大学, 保健福祉学部, 准教授 (00372871)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 人的資源管理 / 組織活性化 / 社会構成主義 / 組織開発 / 言説 / 活動理論 / 組織改善 / インフォーマルな言説 / 職場の「当たり前」 / アクションリサーチ

Research Abstract

Practical tools to improve organizations and workplaces were developed by utilizing an idea of social constructionism that insists social reality is constructed by discourses. Specifically, we developed (1) a tool to collect and analyze informal discourses, (2) a tool to summarize common senses in a highly appreciated workplace and to dispatch a message about them to top management and other workplaces, (3) a tool to integrate advantages of different members in a workplace to create a new activity, and (4) a tool for a manager to draw a vision of new activity, or a dream activity.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Transformational activity by top management for the enhancement of safety in a nuclear power plant in Japan. (2011)
  • Author(s): Fukui, Hirokazu & Sugiman, Toshio
  • Journal Title: International Electronic Journal of Nuclear Safety and Simulation Volume: 2 Pages: 68-76
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Transformational activity by top management for the enhancement of safety (2011)
  • Author(s): Fukui, Hirokazu, Sugiman, Toshio
  • Journal Title: ternational Journal of Nuclear Safety and Simulati Volume: 2(1) Pages: 68-76
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Organizational learning for nurturing safety culture in a nuclear power plant. Hollnagel, E. (Ed.) (2010)
  • Author(s): Fukui, Hirokazu & Sugiman, Toshio
  • Journal Title: Safer complex industrial environments: A human factors approach. FL: CRC Press Pages: 171-187
• [Journal Article] Organizational learning for nurturing safety culture in a nuclear power plant (2010)
  • Author(s): Fukui, Hirokazu, Sugiman, Toshio
  • Journal Title: Safer complex industrial environments : A human factors approach.(Hollnagel, E.(Ed.))(FL : CRC Press.) Pages: 171-187
• [Presentation] Activity theory as a tool to draw a dream in workplace (2011)
  • Author(s): Rakugi, Akiko& Sugiman, Toshio
  • Organizer: International Conference of Revisited Asian Society
  • Place of Presentation: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-24
• [Presentation] Activity theory as a tool to draw a dream in workplace (2011)
  • Author(s): Sugiman, Toshio, Rakugi, Akiko
  • Organizer: The 3rd International Conference of Revisited Asian Society
  • Place of Presentation: Sanata Dharma Univ.
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-22
• [Book] グループ・ダイナミックス入門:組織と地域を変える実践学 (2013)
  • Author(s): 杉万俊夫
  • Total Pages: 320
  • Publisher: 世界思想社
• [Book] グループ・ダイナミックス入門： 組織と地域を変える実践学 (2013)
  • Author(s): 杉万俊夫
  • Total Pages: 320
  • Publisher: 世界思想社
• [Book] Alternative production of Knowledge and social representations (2012)
  • Author(s): Risa Permanadeli
  • Total Pages: 323
  • Publisher: University of Indonesia
• [Book] 京都大学心理学連合(編)「心理学概論」(第11章1節・4節) (2011)
  • Author(s): 杉万俊夫
  • Total Pages: 25
  • Publisher: ナカニシヤ出版