Grounded action: achieving optimal and sustainable change

Grounded action is the application and extension of grounded theory for the purpose of designing and implementing practical actions such as interventions, program designs, action models, social and organizational policies, and change initiatives. Grounded action was designed by the authors to address the complexity and multi-dimensionality of organizational and social problems and issues. It extends grounded theory beyond its original purpose of generating theory that is grounded in data by providing a means of developing actions that are also grounded (systematically derived from a grounded theory)

Grounding Anger Management

One of the things that drew me to grounded theory from the beginning was Glaser and Strauss’ assertion in The Discovery of Grounded Theory that it was useful as a “theoretical foothold” for practical applications (p. 268). From this, when I was a Ph.D student studying under Glaser and Strauss in the early 1970s, I devised a GT based approach to action I later came to call “grounded action.” In this short paper I’ll present a very brief sketch of an anger management program I developed in 1992, using grounded action. I began my research by attending a two-day anger management training workshop designed for training professionals in the most commonly used anger management model. Like other intervention programs I had seen, this model took a psychologizing and pathologizing approach to the issue. Following this, I sat through the full course of an anger management program that used this model, observing the reactions of the participants and the approach of the facilitator. Following each session I conducted open-ended interviews with most of the participants, either individually or in groups of two or three. I had also done previous research in counseling and social work contexts that turned out to be very relevant to an anger management program design

Book Review: Essentials of Accessible Grounded Theory (Stern & Porr, 2011)

Although Porr is a relative newcomer to grounded theory, Stern has been at it for many years (she received her PhD under Glaser and Strauss in 1977). She has been instrumental in introducing many students to grounded theory, particularly in the nursing field, as well as making notable contributions to grounded theory literature. As Stern’s (1994) observations and insights suggested, constructivist versions of grounded theory emerged and spread in part because grounded theory was often being taught by teachers who themselves had a superficial, distorted understanding of the methodology, because they had learned it “minus mentor.” Given her observations, insights, and writings, when I began reading Essentials, my expectations were high. But, after reading it, I concluded that, in some important ways, it falls short. Given Stern’s considerable experience and previous contributions to grounded theory, it is ironic that Essentials contains more confusing and subtly inaccurate content than a book written for neophyte grounded theorists should. Although I think it is a noble effort with useful information, it contains material that is at variance with classic grounded theory, yet this isn’t made clear to the reader. Because Stern and Porr failed to make a clear distinction between classic and other forms of grounded theory, many readers, particularly neophytes, will of course expect that what they present in this book accurately represents essential canons of all types of grounded theory, including classic. Readers will carry the understandings and misunderstandings gained from the book into their research and discussions with other neophytes and individuals who express interest in grounded theory

Grounded Action: Achieving Optimal and Sustainable Change

Grounded Action ist eine Anwendung und Erweiterung der Grounded Theory mit dem Ziel, Interventionen, Programme, Handlungsmodelle etc. zu entwerfen und zu implementieren. Der Grounded Action-Ansatz wurde konzipiert, um der Komplexität und Multidimensionalität von organisatorischen und sozialen Problemstellungen angemessen begegnen zu können. Die Grounded Theory als Strategie der datengegründeten Theorieentwicklung wird insoweit ausgeweitet, als es im Rahmen von Grounded Action um das Entwickeln von – ebenfalls datengegündeten und systematisch aus der Grounded Theory abgeleiteten – Handlungsstrategien geht.Grounded action is the application and extension of grounded theory for the purpose of designing and implementing practical actions such as interventions, program designs, action models, social and organizational policies, and change initiatives. Grounded action was designed by the authors to address the complexity and multi-dimensionality of organizational and social problems and issues. It extends grounded theory beyond its original purpose of generating theory that is grounded in data by providing a means of developing actions that are also grounded (systematically derived from a grounded theory).La acción fundamentada es la aplicación y extensión d ela teoría fundamentada con el propósito de diseñar e implementar acciones prácticas tales como intervenciones, diseño de programas, modelos de acción, políticas organizacionales y sociales e iniciativas de cambio. La acción fundamentada fue diseñada por los autores para manejar la complejidad y la multidimensionalidad de asuntos y problemas sociales y organizacionales. Amplía la teoría fundamentada mas allá de sus propósitos originales de generar teoría que se fundamente en los datos al proporcionar medios para desarrollar acciones que están también fundamentadas (derivadas sistemáticamente de una teoría fundamentada)

Acción fundamentada: haciendo el cambio óptimo y sostenible

Grounded Action ist eine Anwendung und Erweiterung der Grounded Theory mit dem Ziel, Interventionen, Programme, Handlungsmodelle etc. zu entwerfen und zu implementieren. Der Grounded Action-Ansatz wurde konzipiert, um der Komplexität und Multidimensionalität von organisatorischen und sozialen Problemstellungen angemessen begegnen zu können. Die Grounded Theory als Strategie der datengegründeten Theorieentwicklung wird insoweit ausgeweitet, als es im Rahmen von Grounded Action um das Entwickeln von – ebenfalls datengegündeten und systematisch aus der Grounded Theory abgeleiteten – Handlungsstrategien geht. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0303271Grounded action is the application and extension of grounded theory for the purpose of designing and implementing practical actions such as interventions, program designs, action models, social and organizational policies, and change initiatives. Grounded action was designed by the authors to address the complexity and multi-dimensionality of organizational and social problems and issues. It extends grounded theory beyond its original purpose of generating theory that is grounded in data by providing a means of developing actions that are also grounded (systematically derived from a grounded theory). URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0303271La acción fundamentada es la aplicación y extensión d ela teoría fundamentada con el propósito de diseñar e implementar acciones prácticas tales como intervenciones, diseño de programas, modelos de acción, políticas organizacionales y sociales e iniciativas de cambio. La acción fundamentada fue diseñada por los autores para manejar la complejidad y la multidimensionalidad de asuntos y problemas sociales y organizacionales. Amplía la teoría fundamentada mas allá de sus propósitos originales de generar teoría que se fundamente en los datos al proporcionar medios para desarrollar acciones que están también fundamentadas (derivadas sistemáticamente de una teoría fundamentada). URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs030327

Grounded Action: Achieving Optimal and Sustainable Change

Grounded action is the application and extension of grounded theory for the purpose of designing and implementing practical actions such as interventions, program designs, action models, social and organizational policies, and change initiatives. Grounded action was designed by the authors to address the complexity and multi-dimensionality of organizational and social problems and issues. It extends grounded theory beyond its original purpose of generating theory that is grounded in data by providing a means of developing actions that are also grounded (systematically derived from a grounded theory). URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs030327