Dissertation #1 September 20, 2007
Posted by Bill in : Outdoor Learning , trackback
After completing my PGDip. I received my materials to start my dissertation for my MSc in Outdoor Management Development this evening. Half of me say great lets get going, the other says oh no what have I let myself in for! I have a residential workshop to attend next month and then it’s full steam ahead. Now I have to come up with some topics to shape into a dissertation. I have been looking into a few idea lately but can’t seem to settle on one line of research. I am quite keen to investigate and form a question in one of the following following areas;
- Is there transferability of management skills gained in outdoor learning experiences?
- How do employees perceive Learning Organisations (could be East Lothian research)?
- Story-telling in organisations are there differences between management & employee perception of events and how they shape the work environment?
So much work to do. Narrowing it down is the first thing, topic 3 is attractive could be laborious as there is not a great deal of literature available. Anyway 2 weeks to narrow it down! A bit of blogging might help me focus.
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The third topic looks interesting - I have been fascinated when doing pre-course research for team building for organisations of the gap at times in perception (sometimes quite wide) + the perception of folk & their role in an organisation compared to other’s perception of them. This was done by anonymous questionaires including open questions which were destroyed once the programme had been devised.
It could stir up things a bit, how much might research impinge on & alter what you are looking at?
Alastair