Mechanism of practical knowledge generation of organization development by professionals

Research Project

Project/Area Number	25380457
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Management
Research Institution	University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	Sano Takako 筑波大学, ビジネスサイエンス系, 准教授 (10334020)
Project Period (FY)	2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Keywords	組織開発 / プロフェッショナル / 熟達 / コンサルタント / 仕事経験 / use　of　self / 学習 / 信念 / use of self / 成人学習論 / コンサルテーション / クリティカルインシデント法 / 気づき / プロセス・コンサルテーション / 省察
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This research clarified the mechanism of its practical knowledge generation from the viewpoint of what kind of work experience professionals specializing in OD learn from what work experience. We interviewed 10 external consultants and examined them according to the following research subjects. (1) the nature of the lessons learned from work experience and the relationship between them and mastery (2) the relationship between (1) and the beliefs obtained from work experience (3) the characteristics of the learning mechanism in light of the theory of adult learning . The main points which became clear　are following; meta-knowledge lessons were obtained from the difficult experience. Unskilled consultants had lessons learned from the attitude and way of thinking of OD and headed towards the mastery of 'use of self' through experience.