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The Role of Facilitation in Praxis

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  • Raelin, Joseph A.

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The application of facilitation in organizational life has become so popular that it has been co-opted in some quarters as a basis for defining the managerial role. Although it has attributes that can be applied to human interactions across and within organizations, its practice is delimited within group settings as assisting members to accomplish their goals through a focus on process rather than on content. Within the world of praxis, which focuses on settings in which there is an explicit attempt to learn from reflection on action, facilitation is further defined as embodying a reflective practice that is concurrent with and critical of experience. In this article, facilitation will be characterized as a means of bringing out learning for both self and others within team settings. The account will review some of the explicit skills and interventions that facilitators need to deploy when the focus of attention is on praxis rather than on task accomplishment.

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  • Raelin, Joseph A., 2006. "The Role of Facilitation in Praxis," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 35(1), pages 83-95.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:268468
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    1. Raelin, Joseph A., 2008. "Emancipatory Discourse and Liberation," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 39(5), pages 519-540.
    2. Gregory J. Harper & Roslyn Cameron & Christine Edwards, 2024. "A framework for the facilitation of accelerated leadership and management capability development in the workplace," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-10, December.
    3. Raelin, Joseph A., 2021. "Action Learning as a Human Resource Development Resource to Realize Collective Leadership," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 20(3), pages 282-288.
    4. Raelin, Joseph A., 2011. "From leadership-as-practice to leaderful practice," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 7(2), pages 195-211.
    5. Raelin, Joseph A., 2012. "The manager as facilitator of dialogue," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 20(6), pages 818-839.

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    Keywords

    Facilitation; Dialogue; Praxis; Learning; Action learning; Action science;
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    JEL classification:

    • M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Training
    • J52 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights

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