Data infrastructure for evidence-based local government policy analysis
- Authors: Reed, Ken , Blunsdon, Betsy , McEachern, Steven , McNeil, Nicola
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the ANZAM, Perth : 2nd - 5th December, 2003
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- Description: This paper outlines an approach for collecting and integrating data useful for evidence based planning and decision making in the not-for-profit sector, in particular for local government policy and planning. Given the methodological advances in multi-level analysis and the nature of rigorous policy analysis, leading academics and practitioners are advocating that policy driven research to be undertaken at a number of levels of analysis. Recent years have brought an explosion of public domain data in many aspects of social, economic and cultural aspects of society (cites and examples) and with this comes the opportunity, as outlined here, to integrate relevant public domain data in order to construct community profiles for local government areas in Victoria.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000586
Experiential learning in social science theory : An investigation of the relationship between student enjoyment and learning
- Authors: McEachern, Steven , Blunsdon, Betsy , Reed, Ken , McNeil, Nicola
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Higher Education Research & Development Vol. 22, no. 1 (2003), p. 43-56
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- Description: This paper provides an analysis of student experiences of an approach to teaching theory that integrates the teaching of theory and data analysis. The argument that supports this approach is that theory is most effectively taught by using empirical data in order to generate and test propositions and hypotheses, thereby emphasising the dialectic relationship between theory and data through experiential learning. Bachelor of Commerce students in two second-year substantive organisational theory subjects were introduced to this method of learning at a large, multi-campus Australian university. In this paper, we present a model that posits a relationship between students’ perceptions of their learning, the enjoyment of the experience and expected future outcomes.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000604
Integrating public domain data to construct community profiles
- Authors: Reed, Ken , Blunsdon, Betsy , McNeil, Nicola , McEachern, Steven
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IASSIST Quarterly Vol. 27, no. 1 (2003), p. 5-10
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- Description: 2003004625
Teaching organisational theory in undergraduate management programmes : An exercise in facilitated theory testing for active experimentation
- Authors: McEachern, Steven , Blunsdon, Betsy , Reed, Ken , McNeil, Nicola
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Further and Higher Education Vol. 27 , no. 1 (2003), p. 3-14
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- Description: This paper argues that there is an opportunity to improve the way that social science theory is taught by introducing an exercise in facilitated theory testing through active experimentation. This paper describes a learning experience that enables students to discover the dynamic nature of theoretical discoveries. This idea is grounded in the notion that students will gain much from learning about and testing theory experientially using real world data. A data based exercise is outlined and illustrated to reveal a learning experience that provides an opportunity to improve the way social science is taught by linking theory to empirical data. We argue that this provides an opportunity to offer a more holistic learning experience for theory teaching. The paper will be of special interest to those teaching theory in management, commerce, business and organisational studies courses. It will also be of interest to a more general audience because it provides a framework that can be modified whenever forging a connection between theory and ‘the real world’ is a primary learning objective.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000605
The measurement of trust in inter-organisational networks : A conceptual framework and research design
- Authors: Reed, Ken , McEachern, Steven , Blunsdon, Betsy , McNeil, Nicola
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of ANZAM, Perth : 2nd - 5th December, 2003
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- Description: The aim of this paper is to outline a conceptual model and research design for measuring trust in inter-organisational networks which has the potential to be a ‘blueprint’ for a large-scale, multilevel study of trust in networks. Inter-organisational networks are increasingly recognised as a means to achieve economic and social exchange yet, how these networks operate is less widely understood. Trust is widely identified as being essential to the functioning of networks forms of organisation. In order to analyse trust in networks the Social Relations Model (Kenny 1994) of interpersonal perception is applied here. Insights from this model are used to specify relevant components of trust; and extended by incorporating measures of trust at the level of the work group.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000580