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What Works in Democratic Dialogue?

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  • Satu Kalliola

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Kalevantie 4, 33014 Tampere, Finland)

  • Tuula Heiskanen

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Kalevantie 4, 33014 Tampere, Finland)

  • Riikka Kivimäki

    (Independent researcher, 33580 Tampere, Finland)

Abstract

As the global world produces new social problems and the continuously changing environment of work organizations calls for new modes of operation, there emerges a need for discussion forums to analyze and find practical solutions, involving the people concerned. This article examines, within the framework of realist evaluation, the potential of democratic dialogue, a Nordic method of workplace development, to generate outcomes that are put into practice in work organizations. Democratic dialogue is seen as a social program that, by providing the participants with new resources and new reasoning in work conferences and other dialogue forums, enables them to make new choices. The focus is on three Finnish action research networks applying democratic dialogue, and the recompilation of these cases along the Context-Mechanism-Outcomes formula of realist evaluation. Changes in the organizational patterns of communication, linked to the criteria of democratic dialogue and the design of work conferences, are identified and examined through the lenses of varied organizational concepts that elaborate the underlying processes generating change. The article suggests further research to compare cases with the same starting points but differing outcomes to trace the finer distinctions in the preconditions for accomplishing the desired objectives.

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  • Satu Kalliola & Tuula Heiskanen & Riikka Kivimäki, 2019. "What Works in Democratic Dialogue?," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-20, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:8:y:2019:i:3:p:101-:d:215647
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    1. Satu Kalliola & Salme Mahlakaarto, 2020. "Methods of Promoting Professional Agency at Work," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-11, December.

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