Towards an Effective Multi-Stakeholder Consultation Process: Applying the Imagine Method in Context of Abu Dhabi’s Education Policy
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- 作者：Sami Mahroum ; Simon Bell ; Yasser Al-Saleh…
- 刊名：Systemic Practice and Action Research
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：August 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：29
- 期：4
- 页码：335-353
- 全文大小：827 KB
- 刊物类别：Business and Economics
- 刊物主题：Economics
Business
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Organization and Planning
Sociology - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-9295
- 卷排序：29
文摘
This paper is concerned with the many interleaving issues that emerge when engaging multiple stakeholders in decision-making. Whilst recognising the intrinsic value of group work and keeping in mind the numerous issues that obstruct group work (including multiple roles for participants, bias due to domination and distortion emerging from uneven group inputs), we applied the Imagine method to propose a new framework—the ‘Multiple Formation Consultation Framework’ (MFCF)—for organising effective multi-stakeholder consultations along the Policy Sciences Framework. Our proposed framework was applied in the context of education policy in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, where 24 small group formations were tasked and assessed in a systemic manner. Evidence from the exercise suggests that: (1) when moving participants from heterogeneous to homogenous groups, the working of the groups became more focused and the outcomes gained greater clarity in terms of the thinking of group members. (2) Yet, when groups moved from homogenous formations to heterogeneous, they became more inquisitive and explored broader aspects of the tasks at hand. (3) A repeat of the process over 2-day period where different members of the groups experience both homogenous and heterogeneous formations back and forth (in order to capture the unique value emerging from each composition) have led to more efficient and effective working and outcomes of the groups.KeywordsStakeholders consultationMultiple Formation Consultation FrameworkGroup formationImagine method