With a strong emphasis on reflectivity and reflexivity, this book provides placement students with a guide to critically studying an organization from the inside, and is particularly suited to those needing to do a reflective journal or essay as part of their studies.

Introduction
Chapter 1. Being Inside Organizations
Chapter 2. Inquiring from the Inside
Chapter 3. Personal Learning in the Workplace
Chapter 4. Levels and Interlevel Behaviour
Chapter 5. Experiencing the Organizational Underworld
Chapter 6. Experiencing Strategic Processes
Chapter 7. Experiencing Organizational Learning and Change
Conclusions
Appendix 1 Keeping a Learning Journal
Appendix 2 Writing a Reflective Essay

David Coghlan is a Professor Emeritus and Fellow Emeritus at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is author of over 250 articles and book chapters. Recent books include: Collaborative Inquiry in Organization Development and Change (with A.B. Shani, Edward Elgar, 2021), Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization (5^th ed. Sage 2019); Conducting Action Research for Business and Management Students (with A.B. Shani, Sage 2018), Inside Organizations (Sage, 2016) and he is co-editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014) and the 4 volume set, Action Research in Business and Management (A.B. Shani, Sage, 2016). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of several journals.